Software Engineer Lead - Site Reliability Engineering Center at PNC
Lakewood, CO
$86,250–$158,125from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Lakewood, CO
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead-level engineering role within a Site Reliability Engineering team, focused on designing and developing software solutions using a stack centered on Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, microservices, Kafka, and MongoDB. The position involves technical design leadership, code review, incident response on a rotating on-call schedule, and mentoring colleagues. It suits experienced software engineers comfortable working across distributed systems and observability tooling.
Senior level · 3+ years · Pittsburgh, PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 30 people in the Pittsburgh, PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 15–45
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $127,238 (middle half $97,661–$159,195). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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)
The role is titled 'Software Engineer Lead' — mapped to Senior rather than Staff/Principal because the JD describes leading technical design and providing guidance on a team, not setting direction across multiple teams or holding org-wide technical authority.
The posting lists multiple hub locations (Cleveland OH, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas TX, Birmingham AL, Phoenix AZ, Denver CO); Pittsburgh is used as the primary CBSA since it is PNC's headquarters city. Compensation may vary by location.
A Bachelor's degree is listed under 'Education' but the Work Experience section explicitly states 'In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience may be considered,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
The required technology list in the Position Overview ('Experience with a combination of the following technologies is necessary') is treated as the hard-gate skills list. 'API knowledge' is captured as REST (the canonical skill) rather than a generic phrase.
The 'plus' technology list (ETL, SAFe, Mainframe, Oracle, SQL, Kafka, Mongo, Ansible) is explicitly framed as 'a plus' and is marked preferred. Note that Kafka and MongoDB also appear in the required list; they are retained as required.
PNC states this position will not provide visa sponsorship or STEM OPT participation.
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