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Software Engineer II with Security Clearance

Cornerstone DefenseAurora, CO🇺🇸United StatesPosted 15 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$85k - $115k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Software Engineer Aurora, CO TS/SCI w/ Poly Compensation Range: $85,000 - $115,000 Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense. Job Responsibilities: • Supports troubleshooting, maintenance, and documentation of software applications • Expected to troubleshoot and isolate sources of system errors or unexpected performance • Performs testing, integration and delivery of new software baselines • Ability to perform in-depth analysis and assessment with an end-to-end perspective of a complex system in operations • Active and transferrable TS/SCI with polygraph U.S. government issued clearance is required prior to start date Basic Quals: • Typically requires a Bachelors Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 2 years of prior relevant experience • Experience with coding software in Java, or C++ • Experience in software development and/or software integration Preferred Quals: • Experience with software configuration management systems such as git or bitbucket • Ability to work in a structured configuration-controlled environment, primarily focused on the support and maintenance of real-time software applications on an Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contract • Linux/Unix, GIT, and SQL experience • JIRA, BitBucket and Confluence experience desired

Skills

SQL
Confluence
C++
Git
Java
Jira

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