Staff Software Engineer - Product at Crogl
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Jul 5, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role at an AI-focused cybersecurity startup, centered on designing and building a compound AI system — including agents, LLMs, and retrieval-augmented generation — for security operations use cases. The position carries technical leadership responsibilities: owning architecture and delivery for a team's platform area, mentoring engineers, and driving complex decisions end to end. Best suited to experienced distributed-systems engineers with hands-on production AI background.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 9,200–22,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
Go and Python are listed as preferred back-end languages ('strong fluency in one or more of Go, Python, or other major back-end languages'); Go is named first and the JD expresses a preference for statically typed languages, so Go is the primary skill with Python as the named alternative.
Hands-on AI/LLM production experience is stated with firm language ('Hands-on experience building or scaling AI systems in production, ideally LLM-based, agentic, or retrieval-augmented') in the requirements block; LLMs is marked required. RAG and AI agents appear in both the responsibilities and the 'What makes you stand out' section, making them preferred differentiators rather than hard gates.
Cybersecurity domain knowledge (SOC, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, XDR) appears only under 'What makes you stand out from other candidates' — the posting's preferred/differentiator section — so it is marked preferred.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience'; because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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