Senior Salesforce Application Developer at Steampunk
McLean, VA
$130,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
McLean, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level Salesforce development role focused on building, maintaining, and integrating solutions on the Salesforce platform for federal government clients. Day-to-day work spans custom development using Apex, Visualforce, and Lightning components, along with platform administration, data migration, and break/fix support. Candidates need a security clearance eligibility and at least five years of hands-on Salesforce development experience.
Senior level · 10+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Location is not specified in the posting. Steampunk is a federal contractor serving Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors, suggesting work is likely in the Washington, DC metro area, but no city or state is stated — CBSA left blank.
The clearance requirement states candidates must be 'eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance' — the specific level is not named. Given the federal contracting context (Homeland, DoD, Federal Civilian), Secret is the most common baseline gate; this is a judgment call and the actual required level may differ.
Degree requirement: the JD offers two paths — Bachelor's with 10+ years OR Master's with 8+ years. The minimum hard-required degree is a Bachelor's (the lower threshold), so that is what is captured. The 10+ years figure reflects the Bachelor's path as the broader minimum.
Lightning components appear in the role's narrative description of the Salesforce platform rather than in the explicit required qualifications block, so it is marked preferred.
Agile and DevSecOps methodologies, and Salesforce Developer certifications, appear under the 'Preferred Skills' heading.
The alt SOC (15-1211 Computer Systems Analysts) is noted because the role blends hands-on Salesforce development with significant administration, configuration, and business-analyst collaboration — but the primary day-to-day work is clearly development (Apex, Visualforce, custom builds), so 15-1252 is the primary classification.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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