Mid-Level Software Engineer
Belay Technologies · Columbia, MD
$70,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Columbia, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on systems administration role supporting intelligence community CNO capabilities, centered on installing, configuring, and sustaining high-performance hardware — including NVIDIA H100/H200/B300-class GPU platforms — in a government data center or warehouse setting. The work involves hardware relocation, writing detailed deployment documentation and SOPs, coordinating with onsite admin teams, and supporting virtualization, with a longer-term trajectory toward cloud and large language model infrastructure.
Senior level · 9+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $125,654 (middle half $96,394–$162,956). 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 (6)
The title is 'Software Engineer' but the role's primary day-to-day work is hands-on systems administration: installing, configuring, and maintaining high-performance GPU hardware (NVIDIA H100/H200/B300), managing data center/warehouse environments, and writing operational SOPs. 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is the best fit; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is listed as the alt because the posting title says 'Software Engineer' and mentions future modernization/automation work.
TS/SCI with polygraph is an explicit hard gate listed under 'Candidates should have the following qualifications.'
The degree requirement is stated as '9 yrs. with or without a B.S.' — no degree is mandated; equivalent experience is accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
AWS and LLMs appear only in the 'Nice to Haves' section and in forward-looking narrative ('future support for AWS, cloud integrations, and Large Language Model infrastructure'), so they are marked as preferred.
The salary range ($70,000–$190,000/year) is unusually wide; the posting explicitly notes that final salary depends on contract labor categories, experience, and location, which is typical for DoD/cleared staffing firms.
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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