SOFTWARE ENGINEER - GHOSTGEM- 2+ yrs of Experience - TS/SCI w/Poly clearance is required - ID - 520 at Halogen Engineering Group, Inc
Fort George G Meade, MD
$175,000–$181,000
Jul 22, 2026
Fort George G Meade, MD
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on developing, maintaining, and troubleshooting a specific software application suite at Fort Meade, MD. Day-to-day work spans implementation, testing, and integration across areas such as analytics, large-scale data processing, and real-time systems, using Java, Spring, containerization tools, and NoSQL databases. Suits engineers with hands-on backend development experience who hold an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Senior level · 2+ years · Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $175,000–$181,000
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,954 (middle half $107,994–$205,328). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (9)
The title carries no seniority level word; the title states no level. However, the scope of the role — leading multiple software development teams, delegating work, overseeing quality control, and conferring with system/hardware engineers — combined with the TS/SCI + polygraph gate and the compensation band ($175K–$181K) supports a Senior classification.
The minimum experience requirement is stated as 2 years (with a Bachelor's degree) or 4 years (without a degree). The role's actual scope and responsibilities clearly exceed entry-level, so Senior is the appropriate band despite the low stated minimum.
Degree requirement is set to None because the posting explicitly accepts equivalent experience in lieu of a degree (4 years of SWE experience satisfies the qualification without any degree).
RabbitMQ and Kafka are listed together under 'Familiar with Messaging Frameworks such as RabbitMQ and Kafka' in the Required Skills section. Both are captured as required; each lists the other as an alternative since the phrasing implies familiarity with messaging frameworks broadly, but both are named explicitly.
Bamboo and GitLab CI are similarly listed together under CI/CD in the Required Skills section and are captured as required with each as an alternative for the other.
Jira and Confluence appear only under 'Desired Skills' and are marked preferred accordingly.
Helm Charts appear only under 'Desired Skills' and are marked preferred accordingly.
Fort Meade, MD falls within the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD CBSA (12580).
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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