SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Jira/Confluence - 7+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - ID
Halogen Engineering Group, Inc · Fort Meade, MD
$234,000–$241,000
Jul 12, 2026
Fort Meade, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on building, maintaining, and integrating tools within the Atlassian ecosystem — primarily Jira and Confluence — for a government-facing environment. Day-to-day work spans development in Python and Java, shell scripting, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and infrastructure automation, with some team lead responsibilities. Suits an experienced engineer holding an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, working fully onsite at Fort Meade, MD.
Senior level · 7+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $234,000–$241,000
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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 (10)
A current TS/SCI clearance with an active polygraph (less than seven years old) is an explicit hard gate for this role.
The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD offers three equivalent paths — Master's + 5 years, Bachelor's + 7 years, or 9 years of experience with no degree — so no specific degree is mandatory.
Total experience minimum is set to 7 years, reflecting the most common path (Bachelor's + 7 years); the no-degree path requires 9 years.
Bash and PHP are listed together as scripting languages for the same automation task; Bash is named first and PHP is captured as an alternative.
Spring and Kafka appear in the 'Capabilities' narrative section (not the 'Requirements' block) and are treated as preferred/context rather than hard gates.
Eclipse IDE and J2EE also appear only in the Capabilities narrative, not the Requirements section.
Multi-language list (C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript) appears in the Capabilities narrative; Python and Java are separately hard-gated in the Requirements section. The remaining languages are captured as a single preferred skill with alternatives.
The role is onsite at Fort Meade, MD, which falls within the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria CBSA.
The 'Desired Skills' section (Linux sustaining experience, customer training) was omitted from the skills list as it names no specific technologies beyond what is already captured.
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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