Junior Software Database Engineer

Job ID: 2600144

Location: REMOTE WORK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-01-08

Category: Software

Subcategory: SW Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: Yes

Description

THIS POSITION REQUIRES AN ACTIVE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE AND A SEC (or relevant) CERTIFICATION.

SAIC is seeking a qualified Software Database Engineer for a FULLY REMOTE position supporting our AFMS (Air Force Modeling & Simulation) program.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Conducts analysis and collaborates with subject matter experts in the planning, design, development, and utilization of electronic data processing systems for information storage, processing, presentation, manipulation, display, or reporting.
• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs application software.
• End product may be special use, customized, or commercial software.
• Determines computer user needs; analyzes system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepares operating instructions; designs and develops autonomous services, desktop applications, web applications, scripts, and utility programs.
• Ensures software standards are met.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5 yrs experience; or relevant years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Possess DoD 8570 certification in IAT Level II certification or above (CompTIA Security CE, CASP CE, CISSP, etc.)
• Must be US Citizen and currently possess a Secret Clearance.
• Agile / Scrum experience.
• Cloud Experience (AWS preferred).
• Python.
• HTML/CSS.
• Modern JS framework knowledge (angular, vue, node, jquery).
• VSCode.
• Linux.
• Git (GitLab) PHP.
• Strong Experience with web applications including front end development, consuming and developing REST APIs.
• Strong Experience using frontend frameworks (Angular, Redux, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Strong Experience with server side technologies ( node, JS, PHP, Apache HTTP Server).
• Strong Experience working Docker, and cloud environments.
• Experience developing software applications that interacts with large sets of data in SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and/or
• NoSQL (MongoDB) Databases.
• Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Record Stores (LRS), including work with modern learning technology protocols (SCORM, xAPI, cmi5).
• Familiarity with all or some of the following tools: Moodle, Big Blue Button, Rustici, IntelliBoard
  
  

Desired Qualifications:

• RDMS (MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL).
• NoSQL db experience (MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.).
• Apache.
• Tomcat.
• Ansible.
• Terraform.
• CloudFormation.
• Jenkins.
• Jfrog Artifactory.
  
  

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.