Staff Software Engineer - Core at GoGuardian
$190,000–$220,000from the description
Jul 19, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level engineering role focused on the client application that delivers filtering and safety features to Windows, macOS, and iOS devices in K-12 school environments. Day-to-day work centers on installer engineering, enterprise deployment tooling (Intune, GPO, SCCM, Jamf, and similar), auto-update infrastructure, and health reporting systems. The role also involves leading architecture decisions for the team and contributing to supporting cloud infrastructure on AWS.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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). 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 (10)
This role sits at the intersection of desktop/endpoint software engineering and enterprise deployment tooling. The primary day-to-day work is writing and shipping production code (installers, background services, update systems, backend APIs) — hence Software Developers — but the deep enterprise IT deployment focus (Intune, GPO, SCCM, MDM) creates a genuine pull toward 15-1244; alternative occupation reflects that ambiguity.
The title is 'Staff Software Engineer' and the JD describes cross-team architectural leadership and mentoring, consistent with a Staff-level IC role.
Go, C#/.NET, Swift, and C++ are listed as preferred languages ('preferred') under the requirements section; they are captured as a single skill with alternatives since the JD treats them as interchangeable options for the same requirement.
JavaScript/React and MySQL appear in the same requirements paragraph framed as 'enough full-stack fluency … to contribute' — treated as preferred rather than hard gates.
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker appear in a 'Have deployed software utilizing … or other similar technology' clause — treated as preferred.
GitHub Actions is inferred as the likely runner platform from the explicit mention of 'GitHub runners'; CI/CD is captured separately as the broader capability called out.
macOS/iOS deployment, Jamf, and Apple MDM are explicitly framed as 'familiarity with … or a demonstrated ability to come up to speed quickly' — treated as preferred.
Kafka and ML/AI interest appear under the 'Nice to Have' section.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Windows installer engineering.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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