Senior Software Engineer
GliaCell Technologies · Annapolis Junction, MD
$180,000–$260,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Annapolis Junction, MD
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level software engineering role supporting a U.S. Government customer at Annapolis Junction, Maryland, focused on sustaining critical mission-related software and systems. The work draws on Java or AWS development, with tooling including Confluence, Jira, and GitLab. Suited to a seasoned engineer with 14+ years of experience and an active or reinstateable TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Senior level · 14+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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 $158,337 (middle half $126,441–$180,105). 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)
An active or reinstateable TS/SCI with Polygraph (in-scope within 7 years) is an absolute hard gate — the posting states this prominently at the top and repeats it in Key Requirements.
The 14+ years experience requirement is stated at the role level ('14+ years Software Engineering experience'). A BS in Computer Science or related field is listed alongside it, but the posting explicitly allows 4 additional years of SWE experience to substitute for the degree — so no degree is hard-required.
Containerization is listed as 'K8s or AWS Elastic Container Service'; Kubernetes is captured as the primary skill with AWS ECS as an alternative.
Requirements deriving and multi-team collaboration experience appear in the Key Skills section but name no specific technology, so they are omitted per extraction rules.
GitLab CI/CD pipeline automation and cloud architecture/stability/resilience/failover appear under 'Desired Skills' and are marked preferred accordingly.
The role is based in Annapolis Junction, MD (part of the Washington DC metro CBSA). Partial telework (up to 16 hrs/week) is available at leadership discretion after onboarding — not fully remote.
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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