Senior Software Engineer - Confluent Applied AI for DevProd
IBM · Seattle, WA
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Jul 15, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a Developer Productivity team focused on building AI-powered engineering workflows — things like automated code review, ticket-to-PR pipelines, documentation generation, and CI/CD guardrails. The work involves designing and operating backend services that connect large language models to developer tooling such as GitHub, Jira, and CI systems, then measuring and iterating on real-world adoption. It suits engineers with production backend experience who have hands-on familiarity applying LLM techniques to practical software engineering problems.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 28,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 17,200–42,900
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 (5)
The language requirement (Java, Go, or Python) is stated as 'proficiency in at least one major language (e.g., …)' — these are interchangeable options, so they are captured as a single skill with alternatives.
GitHub, Jira, Slack, and CI/CD appear in the 'What You Will Do' responsibilities narrative rather than in the Required or Preferred sections, so they are treated as stack context rather than hard gates.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
The alternative occupation code 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is noted as a runner-up because the Developer Productivity / AI-workflow-tooling focus sits at the boundary between general software development and a more specialized internal-tooling/platform occupation, though the primary day-to-day work is clearly software development.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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