Software Engineer-AFRL at Jobgether
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Jul 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-to-senior software engineering role focused on building and maintaining backend systems for defense research programs involving population simulation, synthetic data generation, and geospatial analytics. Day-to-day work spans the full development lifecycle — architecture, coding in Java and Python, database work, CI/CD, and direct engagement with customers to translate operational needs into software. An active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility to obtain one is required.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · 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 $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 (8)
The job title 'Software Engineer-AFRL' carries no seniority level word; advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the body describes the target as 'mid-to-senior level' and gates on 5+ years, supporting a Senior classification.
TS/SCI clearance is a hard gate: the posting states 'Active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility to obtain the required clearance' under Requirements.
A Bachelor's degree appears only under Preferred Qualifications and explicitly allows 'equivalent professional experience,' so no minimum degree is hard-required.
GitLab, JIRA, Confluence, and Jenkins are listed together as examples of required source-control/project-management/CI-CD tooling ('such as … or similar platforms'); GitLab and Jenkins are captured as the primary CI/CD gate with alternatives, and JIRA/Confluence as the project-management gate.
Big data technologies (Spark, Hadoop, BigQuery, AWS Athena, EMR) and cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; no compensation figures are provided despite the mention of a 'competitive compensation package.'
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.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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