Senior Software Engineer
Grey Matters Defense Solutions · Centennial, CO
$130,000–$172,000
Jul 14, 2026
Centennial, CO
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining cloud-based software for intelligence community and defense applications. Day-to-day work spans the full development lifecycle — from prototyping and architecture through integration, testing, and deployment — using Java/Spring, Angular/TypeScript, microservices, and containerized infrastructure. Suited to an experienced engineer with at least ten years of professional development background, ideally holding an active Top Secret clearance.
Senior level · 10+ years · National · Bachelor's required · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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)
No work location or metro area is specified in the posting. Given the company's focus on the Intelligence Community and DoD, the role likely requires on-site work at a cleared facility, but no city or state is stated.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'Active Top Secret Security Clearance with SSBI' under Preferred Skills, not the main requirements block. However, given the IC/DoD mission and the firm language 'Active', this is treated as a hard gate. The SSBI (Single Scope Background Investigation) is the standard adjudication basis for a Top Secret clearance; no SCI access is explicitly mentioned, so TopSecret (not TopSecretSci) is used.
A Master's degree is listed under Preferred Skills alongside the clearance — it is not a hard requirement.
Microservice architecture experience is required per the main qualifications block; Docker is the named containerization technology listed there and is marked required. Kubernetes appears only under Preferred Skills.
The posting does not state compensation.
Requires a Top 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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