Director, Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
Alpharetta, GA
$132,000–$135,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Alpharetta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Director-level software engineering role focused on overseeing team performance, agile practices, and production system reliability. Day-to-day work involves tracking metrics, managing impediments across multiple projects, and driving operational improvements. The position suits an experienced technologist with a broad background spanning identity and access management tools, Java-based web technologies, multiple database platforms, observability tooling, and site reliability engineering practices.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,550–11,200
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.
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). 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 job title is 'Director, Software Engineer' — 'Director' is a senior leadership title at Morgan Stanley but the role is framed as an individual-contributor engineering position (no direct reports, no budget ownership mentioned). Advertised seniority is mapped to Principal on the basis of the Director title; actual scope and requirements support Senior.
The role is physically located in Alpharetta, GA per the posting, with telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week. Per caller instruction, it is being treated as fully remote with no metro assigned.
The posting lists every skill under a single hard-requirements block with an explicit 5-year demand for each. The breadth of the list (30+ named technologies) is unusually wide and likely reflects a government-style PERM/labor-certification filing rather than a typical job description — all items are nonetheless marked required as written.
The role blends software development (Java, APIs, web stack), platform/SRE operations (Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, high availability, RCA), identity/access management (Oracle Access Manager, SailPoint IIQ), and RPA (Blue Prism). SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) was chosen as the primary code given the engineering and development emphasis; 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is noted as a plausible alternative given the strong SRE/operations component.
The compensation band ($132,000–$135,000/year) is notably narrow, consistent with a PERM prevailing-wage filing.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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