Mulesoft Developer at Steampunk
McLean, VA
$85,000–$170,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
McLean, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A MuleSoft developer role within a federal contracting context, focused on building and maintaining APIs and system integrations using the MuleSoft platform, including AnyPoint Studio and CloudHub 2.0. Day-to-day work involves translating business requirements into integration solutions, writing MUnit tests, performing root cause analysis, and producing technical documentation. Suits candidates with hands-on MuleSoft, cloud, and Salesforce integration experience who can also mentor junior team members.
Mid level · 3+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (10)
Location is not specified in the posting; the role is for a federal contractor (Steampunk) serving Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD clients, likely in the DC/Northern Virginia area, but no city or metro is stated.
Clearance requirement is a 'U.S. Government Tier 3 Background Investigation,' which maps to a Secret-level investigation (Tier 3 = Moderate Risk / Secret). No TS or TS/SCI is mentioned.
Degree requirement: the JD accepts a BS in a non-IT field plus 2 years of related IT experience as an alternative to a BS in an IT field. A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent path) is still a hard gate.
The CompTIA Security+ requirement includes 'or similar cybersecurity certification' — alternatives exist but the certification category itself is required.
PCE (Private Cloud Environment) architecture experience is listed as required but names no specific named technology tool, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The '3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages' requirement names no specific language, so it is captured in the overall years minimum context only and not emitted as a named skill.
Preferred certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Developer Associate) are listed under the 'Preferred' section.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role is primarily MuleSoft integration/API development, which fits Software Developers (15-1252), but the heavy integration-middleware focus could also be read as 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other).
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
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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