Senior Software Engineer, Backend — AI Platform at NewsBreak
Mountain View, CA
$118,000–$212,000
Jul 27, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role at NewsBreak focused on modernizing high-traffic recommendation-serving infrastructure to be AI-native. The engineer will redesign service boundaries, build observability, and create infrastructure that allows AI agents to operate safely in production — while also shipping product-facing backend capabilities. Suited to someone with a track record of incrementally refactoring live, high-QPS systems without downtime.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,700 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,300–2,200
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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting names no specific CI/CD tool — the requirement is for CI/CD capability generally.
LLM-agent / AIOps exposure is explicitly called a 'Bonus', so it is marked as preferred.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Mountain View, CA falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA (41940).
The alt SOC (15-1244) was considered because the role touches infrastructure operations and observability, but the primary mandate — designing service architecture, writing automation, and shipping backend capabilities — is squarely software development (15-1252).
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