Software Development Engineer IV at Premera Blue Cross
Mountlake Terrace, WA
$135,600–$230,500from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Mountlake Terrace, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role at a health insurance company, focused on designing and building enterprise-scale software with an emphasis on AI-driven DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline automation, and infrastructure-as-code. The position carries broad technical leadership responsibilities — including architecture guidance, code review oversight, incident response, and mentoring — and suits an experienced engineer comfortable operating across development, operations, and governance in a regulated industry.
Senior level · 8+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,750 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,550–6,100
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). 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 title 'Software Development Engineer IV' carries no standard seniority label (Junior/Mid/Senior/etc.), so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified; the actual requirements (8+ years, enterprise-scale architecture, cross-team technical leadership) firmly support Senior.
This role has meaningful people-leadership and mentoring responsibilities, but the JD emphasizes hands-on engineering, architecture, and implementation as the primary day-to-day work, making 15-1252 the best fit; 11-3021 is noted as a runner-up given the governance, vendor oversight, and team-influence scope.
CI/CD is the one concrete technology called out with firm language in the required-qualifications context ('Define and drive AI-enabled DevSecOps automation, including solution design and implementation of fully automated CI/CD pipelines'); all other named tools appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
Azure AI and OpenAI are listed together as a single preferred requirement ('Azure AI/OpenAI'); emitted as one skill with the other as an alternative.
IaC (Infrastructure as Code) is mentioned in the responsibilities section alongside CI/CD but is not explicitly gated in the required qualifications; treated as preferred.
The salary range is labeled 'National Plus' and applies specifically to higher cost-of-labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska; the posting notes they generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.
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