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Database Engineer (DE) Skill Level 2
Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
Open 5 months, first seen by us 164 days ago- Pay
- Pay not listedSimilar roles state $127K–$190K
- Work setting
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Work setup in the employer’s posting: On-site
From the employer’s posting- Employment
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Employment type in the employer’s posting: Full time
From the employer’s posting
Before you apply
- Work authorization
- Citizens only
We are looking for a Database Engineer Level 2 with technical experience with: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis
What you’ll work on
Full postingDevelop long- and short-term requirements for database administration
Design and administer databases across Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis
From the employer’s posting
Experience developing long and short-term requirements for database administration and design
Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis
What you’ll bring
All qualificationsCore experience
- Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
- Five years' experience as a Database Engineer, or nine years without a bachelor's degree
- Experience with SQL and tools such as SQL Developer
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
Preferred experience
- Experience with Elasticsearch
Qualification wording
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance
A bachelor’s degree and five (5) years' experience as a Database Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
Experience with SQL and the associated tools (SQL Developer, etc…)
Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis
Experience with Elasticsearch
Education & alternatives
We are looking for a Database Engineer Level 2 with technical experience with: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis. Experience with SQL and the associated tools (SQL Developer, etc…) Experience developing long and short-term requirements for database administration and design DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Elasticsearch Requirements A bachelor’s degree and five (5) years' experience as a Database Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Nine (9) years of experience required In lieu of bachelor’s degree.
Posting record
Report an errorOpen 5 monthsWe first saw this posting 164 days ago and it is still up. Roles open this long are often slow to fill or kept open to collect applications.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Jun 2, 2026164 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 129
- Last seen by us
- Nov 13, 2026
- Employer says posted
- Mar 29, 2026
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How this job compares
Time since we first saw it
Day 164
Up longer than most. Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 56.
From 13,630 similar postings that came down. Coming down is not always a hire.
LifeCycle is hiring
8 open jobs
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- Its jobs tend to stay up a long time
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Where the posting names them
We are looking for a Database Engineer Level 2 with technical experience with: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis. Experience with SQL and the associated tools (SQL Developer, etc…) Experience developing long and short-term requirements for database administration and design DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Elasticsearch Requirements A bachelor’s degree and five (5) years' experience as a Database Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Nine (9) years of experience required In lieu of bachelor’s degree.
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Demand for Data Engineer roles
New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 7% over the last 6 weeks compared with the 6 before.
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About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $139,500
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.
Job description
We are looking for a Database Engineer Level 2 with technical experience with: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases to include but not limited to Oracle, Postgres, Mongo and Redis. Experience with SQL and the associated tools (SQL Developer, etc…) Experience developing long and short-term requirements for database administration and design DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Experience with Elasticsearch Requirements A bachelor’s degree and five (5) years' experience as a Database Engineer in programs and contracts of similar scope, type and complexity is required. Nine (9) years of experience required In lieu of bachelor’s degree.
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