Staff Software Engineer
JazzX AI · San Francisco, CA
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Jul 20, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on architecting and building a cloud-native enterprise AI platform, with particular emphasis on scalability, reliability, and security. The work spans distributed systems design, AI/ML service deployment, infrastructure-as-code, and container orchestration, alongside mentoring engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Best suited to engineers with 8+ years of cloud-native development experience and hands-on AI/ML platform work.
Staff level · 8+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 390 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 210–510
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 $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052).
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 (7)
The role blends deep software development (designing and building cloud-native AI platform services) with significant infrastructure/IaC ownership — the alt SOC 15-1244 was considered but 15-1252 better fits because the JD centers on designing and shipping software, not operating existing infrastructure.
The programming language requirement asks for expertise in 'at least two of' Python, Java, JavaScript, Golang, or C++; Python is listed as the primary skill with the others as alternatives, but candidates are expected to know at least two — hiring managers should note this is a multi-language gate.
Terraform is listed as the primary IaC tool with Ansible and CloudFormation as named alternatives ('or'); all three are captured under one skill per the interchangeable-options rule.
TensorFlow/PyTorch, LangChain/LlamaIndex/AutoGen, LLMs, and MLOps are all explicitly called out as 'a plus' or 'strong plus' in the JD — treated as preferred accordingly.
Distributed tracing is required ('solid understanding of distributed systems concepts and experience with distributed tracing tools') but no specific tool (e.g. Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry) is named.
The role is headquartered in Los Altos, CA, which falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA. No remote option is stated.
No compensation range is disclosed.
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