Software Engineer
WR Systems · Dam Neck, VA
$63,000–$91,000from the description
Jul 11, 2026
Dam Neck, VA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role based at Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, focused on designing, developing, and testing software applications across Unix, Windows, and Linux environments. Day-to-day work involves analyzing system requirements, modeling design decisions, and building applications using languages such as C, C++, Python, or similar tools. Suited to candidates with at least one year of professional development experience and an active Secret clearance.
Junior level · 1+ years · Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC · Bachelor's required · Secret clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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 $131,929 (middle half $101,412–$164,081). 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 (8)
The programming language requirement is an 'at least one of' gate — the JD requires 1+ year of experience using one or more of C, C++, C#, Python, Visual Basic, SQL, ORM technologies, or containerization technologies. These have been emitted as individual required skills with alternatives reflecting the interchangeable nature of the requirement, but in practice only one needs to be satisfied.
Technologies listed in the second 'Experience with technologies such as' sentence (RHEL, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Docker, etc.) appear in a descriptive/context sentence rather than a hard-requirements gate, so they are marked preferred.
The two preferred items — 2 years of networked systems/sysadmin/cybersecurity experience and DoD IA/IAT knowledge — are explicitly labeled 'Preferred' in the posting.
An active Secret clearance is a hard start requirement explicitly stated at the top of the posting.
The role requires a BS degree in a specified STEM discipline with no 'or equivalent experience' language, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
Total experience minimum is set to 1 year, matching the stated minimum professional software development experience gate.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD IAT Level I/II.
Requires a 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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