Dark Wolf
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Overview
Dark Wolf is a US federal technology contractor headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, delivering cyber-centric engineering, DevSecOps software delivery, cloud, data and AI, penetration testing and mission enablement services to defense, intelligence and commercial customers. Besides Herndon it has offices in Colorado Springs, Fulton in Maryland and Bellevue in Nebraska, offers secure data storage products through RackTop Systems and reusable accelerators through Apex Innovations, and works under established government contract vehicles. It hires AI and data engineers, DevSecOps and systems engineers, cybersecurity analysts, ISSMs and security control assessors, often requiring clearances.
Technologies
Tech DNA
Python
C++
SQL
LangChain
PyTorch
LlamaIndex
PostgreSQL
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
AWS
Azure
GCP
LLM
LoRA
QLoRA
AI/ML
Python
C++
SQL
Scala
AWS
Azure
Kubernetes
GCP
CI/CD
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
GitLab CI
Jenkins
GitLab
Amazon EKS
Configuration Management
Splunk
Service Mesh
PostgreSQL
Spark
LangChain
PyTorch
RAG
Fine-tuning
Istio
Rancher
Kibana
Logstash
ArgoCD
Git
IAM
GitOps
ElasticSearch
LlamaIndex
LLM
Grafana
Podman
Prometheus
CloudFormation
Amazon S3
Helm
OpenSearch
Neo4j
Red Teaming
AI Agents
TensorFlow
OpenTelemetry
GitHub Actions
GitHub
Ubuntu
CircleCI
Vector
Trino
Milvus
Pinecone
Databricks
Airflow
dbt
Edge AI
Hugging Face
LangGraph
LLM Guardrails
Prompt Engineering
Ray
Multi-Agent Systems
Quantization
Linkerd
eBPF
Red Hat
VMWare
FluxCD
Kustomize
Chef
Puppet
Loki
Google GKE
CRI-O
JFrog Artifactory
Windows Server
Amazon EC2
Amazon ECS
Azure DevOps
Platform Engineering
Shift-Left
HPC
Pulumi
pySpark
Oracle
pgvector
Amazon Redshift
BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Snowflake
Apache Hudi
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Presto
FAISS
Qdrant
Great Expectations
Amazon SageMaker
AWS Bedrock
Giskard
NeMo Guardrails
NIST AI RMF
Promptfoo
Tool Use
Pandas
Flink
Knowledge Distillation
Model Distillation
Anomaly Detection
Explainable AI
NLP
Semantic Search
Semantic Search
AutoGen
CUDA
CUDA Toolkit
DeepSpeed
DPO
GRPO
LLMOps
LoRA
Mixture of Experts
Post-training
QLoRA
RLHF
Speculative Decoding
TensorRT-LLM
TPU
Triton
vLLM
PEFT
TensorRT
Bitbucket
Backend
Rest API
Apache Kafka
FastAPI
.NET
Django
Flask
Spring Boot
Security
JavaScript
Bash
Go
Rust
PowerShell
SonarQube
FedRAMP
Zero Trust
Falco
OWASP ZAP
Snyk
NIST 800-53
Fortify
HashiCorp Vault
Kyverno
Open Policy Agent
Trivy
Nessus
Threat Modeling
Suricata
Zeek
NeuVector
SentinelOne
Checkmarx
Crowdstrike
Sonatype Nexus IQ
OWASP Top 10
Shift-Left Security
QA
Java
TypeScript
C#
Cypress
JMeter
k6
Playwright
Selenium
Jest
Mocha
Pytest
Frontend
Node JS
Sass
React.js
InVision
Sketch
Svelte
Vue.js
Angular
Other
Agile
Scrum
Jira
ETL/ELT
Dimensional Modeling
Kanban
Zigbee
Digital Twin
Data Vault
Confluence
ServiceNow
Stack modernity
79/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
AWS
38 jobs
Required
$170k
-11% vs market
Agile
31 job
Required
$170k
+8% vs market
Azure
28 jobs
Required
$170k
-5% vs market
Kubernetes
27 jobs
Required
$180k
-5% vs market
Python
27 jobs
Required
$170k
-8% vs market
GCP
25 jobs
Required
$165k
-18% vs market
CI/CD
23 jobs
Required
$170k
Median
Docker
20 jobs
Required
$170k
+3% vs market
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
17%
SQL
16%
JavaScript
15%
CI/CD
15%
Docker
13%
PostgreSQL
12%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
TensorRT
Sep 2026
PEFT
Sep 2026
vLLM
Sep 2026
Triton
Sep 2026
TPU
Sep 2026
TensorRT-LLM
Sep 2026
Speculative Decoding
Sep 2026
RLHF
Sep 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
Jobgether
Cisco Systems
Accenture
Weekday
Booz Allen Hamilton
Leidos
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$170k
Typical range
$110k – $285k
Open positions
46
45
Jobs
Junior
11.1%
Middle
15.6%
Senior
46.7%
Staff
13.3%
Principal
2.2%
Architect
11.1%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 5 | $130k | $120k – $145k |
| Middle | 7 | $145k | $110k – $180k |
| Senior | 21 | $170k | $115k – $210k |
| Staff | 6 | $173k | $140k – $185k |
| Principal | 1 | $190k | $190k |
| Architect | 5 | $240k | $180k – $285k |
Highest paying role
AI Lead Software Architect - SME
$285k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
38/100
Slowing
Open positions
53
3 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
48 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Security
37% ▲
DevOps
14% ▼
Data Science
12% ▲
AI/ML
9% ▲
Backend
5% ▼
Management
5% ▼
Actively hiring for Security (+12 in 30 days)
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
40
Hiring now
13
Countries
2
Busiest office
Herndon
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Herndon
United States
HQ
Colorado Springs, CO
11 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 82% engineering 18% remote $166k Avg Salary
hires for Security, DevOps, Data Science
Chantilly
United States
Engineering / R&D
Chantilly, VA
15 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $190k Avg Salary
hires for Data Science, AI/ML, Security
Colorado Springs
United States
Engineering / R&D
Colorado Springs, CO
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 71% engineering $152k Avg Salary
hires for Security, Backend, Frontend
Ogden
United States
Engineering / R&D
Ogden, UT
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 83% engineering $165k Avg Salary
hires for Security, QA, Management
Washington
United States
Regional office
Alexandria, VA
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $170k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Tampa
United States
Engineering / R&D
Tampa, FL
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $170k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Security
Omaha
United States
Engineering / R&D
Omaha, NE
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $170k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
College Park
United States
Engineering / R&D
College Park, MD
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $140k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps
Melbourne
Australia
Melbourne, FL
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $120k Avg Salary
hires for Customer Success
Huntsville
United States
Herndon, VA
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering $150k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Ontario
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles
hires for Field & Service
Arlington
United States
Engineering / R&D
Arlington, VA
1 open roles 100% engineering $185k Avg Salary
hires for Security
Mountain View
United States
Colorado Springs, CO
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $175k Avg Salary
hires for Operations
Philadelphia
United States
Regional office
Philadelphia, PA
San Diego
United States
Regional office
San Diego, CA
Boston
United States
Regional office
Boston, MA
Austin
United States
Regional office
Austin, TX
San Antonio
United States
Regional office
San Antonio, TX
Salt Lake City
United States
Regional office
Salt Lake City, UT
Virginia Beach
United States
Regional office
Virginia Beach, VA
El Paso
United States
Regional office
El Paso, TX
Melbourne
United States
Regional office
Melbourne, FL
Alexandria
United States
Regional office
Alexandria, VA
Falls Church
United States
Regional office
Falls Church, VA
Fort Bragg
United States
Regional office
Fort Bragg, NC
Homestead
United States
Regional office
Homestead, FL
Liberty
United States
Regional office
Fort Liberty, NC
Grand Forks
United States
Regional office
Grand Forks, ND
Hampton
United States
Regional office
Hampton, VA
Williamsburg
United States
Regional office
Williamsburg, VA
Reston
United States
Regional office
Reston, VA
McLean
United States
Regional office
McLean, VA
Tysons
United States
Regional office
Tysons Corner, VA
Fort Meade
United States
Regional office
Fort Meade, MD
Fort Belvoir
United States
Regional office
Fort Belvoir, VA
Quantico
United States
Regional office
Quantico, VA
Sterling
United States
Regional office
Sterling, VA
Vienna
United States
Regional office
Vienna, VA
Arlington
United States
Regional office
Arlington, VA
Sunrise
United States
Regional office
Locations
13454 Sunrise Valley Drive
Jobs
$160k – $210k per year • In office • TS/SCI • Contractor • 10+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chantilly
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$120k – $170k per year • In office • Top Secret • Contractor • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ogden
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TypeScript
SQL
Terraform
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GCP
GitHub Actions
Rancher
GitLab CI
Azure
CI/CD
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Docker
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$100k – $150k per year • Remote/Hybrid • Secret • Contractor • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Herndon
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cybersecurity
Nessus
NIST 800-53
Threat Modeling
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$160k – $180k per year • In office • TS/SCI • Contractor • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tampa
Neo4j
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GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Management
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$100k – $160k per year • In office • TS/SCI • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ogden
ElasticSearch
DevOps
Splunk
Terraform
Kibana
CloudFormation
Logstash
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
eBPF
GitLab
Cybersecurity
Falco
Threat Modeling
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$150k – $170k per year • Remote • Secret • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Herndon
GCP
Management
Agile
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$90k – $110k per year • In office • Secret • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Colorado Springs
PostgreSQL
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$120k – $150k per year • Remote • Secret • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Herndon
GCP
Management
Agile
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≈ $128k – $227k per year (Estimated) • In office • Secret • Contractor • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree
GCP
Cybersecurity
FedRAMP
Management
Confluence
Jira
Agile
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$155k – $185k per year • In office • Top Secret • Contractor • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Arlington
Terraform
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GCP
GitLab CI
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CI/CD
ArgoCD
Jenkins
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Management
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$90k – $145k per year • In office • TS/SCI • Contractor • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Ogden
ElasticSearch
DevOps
Splunk
Terraform
Ansible
Kibana
Logstash
CI/CD
AWS
GitLab
Cybersecurity
SentinelOne
NIST 800-53
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$130k – $145k per year • Remote/Hybrid • Secret • Contractor • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Colorado Springs
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