Software Engineer
Everwatch · Annapolis Junction, MD
$100.96–$115.38/hrfrom the description
Jul 14, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining large-scale, cloud-native systems for U.S. government defense and intelligence missions. Day-to-day work centers on Java/Spring Boot microservices, event-driven architectures with Kafka, containerized deployments on Kubernetes and AWS, and CI/CD pipeline management. The position suits a highly experienced engineer who holds an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 15+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance
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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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). 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)
The role is located in Annapolis Junction, MD — this falls within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD CBSA (12580), a common NSA-adjacent corridor.
TS/SCI with polygraph is an explicit hard gate, stated both in the 'You Have' qualifications block and in the dedicated Clearance section.
The experience requirement is stated as a tiered alternative: HS diploma/GED + 19 years OR Bachelor's degree + 15 years. The minimum (15 years with a Bachelor's) is used for the overall years minimum. Because equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None.
Neo4j appears in both the required 'You Have' section (as a relational/graph database integration requirement) and the 'Nice If You Have' section (for deeper Cypher/APOC/GDS expertise). It is emitted as required for the general integration requirement and as preferred for the advanced graph-specific tooling.
The job's skills footer lists 'Python, Spark, SQL, NoSQL, Mapreduce' as tags, but none of these appear as stated requirements or preferred skills in the body of the JD — they are not emitted as skills to avoid inflating the requirement set from metadata tags.
The ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is referenced under observability tools in the 'Nice If You Have' section; Elasticsearch is captured as the representative skill with OpenSearch as an alternative per the JD's own pairing.
Requires a TS/SCI 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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