Staff Software Engineer, Mailchimp Audience Platform at Intuit
ATLANTA, GA
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Jul 24, 2026
ATLANTA, GA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on the platform that stores and serves Mailchimp's audience data — tens of billions of records underpinning much of the product. Day-to-day work spans API and service development, large-scale data pipelines, and leading a migration to a cloud-native infrastructure. The role also carries technical leadership responsibilities: setting direction, mentoring teammates, and coordinating with cross-functional partners up to director level.
Staff level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,650–4,600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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)
No explicit seniority level appears in the job title or posting framing, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. However, the actual scope — setting team technical direction, leading cross-departmental projects with Directors and VPs, establishing patterns and processes, and mentoring team members — is consistent with a Staff-level individual contributor role rather than a Senior one.
The role is genuinely hybrid between software development (building APIs, services, platform) and data engineering (large-scale pipelines, streaming, storage). Software Developers (15-1252) was chosen as primary because the posting emphasizes building and owning platform services and APIs; Database Architects (15-1243) is the close runner-up given the heavy data pipeline and infrastructure focus.
Coding experience is required in 'PHP, Go, Java, Kotlin, or other languages' — these are presented as interchangeable options. PHP is listed as the primary name with Go, Java, and Kotlin as alternatives.
GraphQL, GCP, and Kubernetes-based platforms are explicitly called out as 'a plus (but not required)' in the Qualifications section, so they are marked as preferred. Kubernetes also appears in the required qualifications section in the context of cloud migration experience, creating some ambiguity; it is marked preferred to reflect the explicit 'not required' language.
Technologies listed under 'Technologies You'll Work With' (Docker, Spring Boot, Java/Kotlin, MySQL, React, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Dataflow) are described as the team's landscape rather than hard gates, so they are marked as preferred.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting beyond a general reference to competitive pay and equity; no numeric range was provided.
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