Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer at Carbon, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
$209,600–$314,400from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Sunnyvale, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a hands-on Staff-level platform engineering role at a 3D-printing company, responsible for owning and extending multi-cloud (AWS and GCP) infrastructure, Kubernetes clusters with Istio, Terraform-based IaC, and CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions. The role also covers cloud-to-printer networking for a global hardware fleet and includes on-call, incident response, and technical mentorship of other engineers.
Staff level · 7+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 190 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 70–240
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role requires deep expertise in at least one of AWS or GCP and working proficiency in the other — both are listed as required but the JD explicitly allows a candidate to be expert in one and proficient in the other rather than expert in both equally.
Jenkins and GitHub Actions are listed together as a paired requirement with 'or comparable systems' as a substitution qualifier; both are captured as required since they appear in the requirements section.
Python, Go, and Bash are listed as interchangeable scripting/systems language options; Python is used as the primary name with Go and Bash as alternatives.
VPCs, DNS, TLS, and VPNs are extracted as discrete networking skills from the required networking fundamentals section rather than as a single generic 'networking' skill.
Bazel appears only under 'Nice to have' and is marked preferred accordingly.
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 appear only under 'Nice to have'; they are treated as interchangeable compliance framework experience and marked preferred.
The posting is tagged #LI-Onsite, confirming this is not a remote role despite no explicit remote policy statement.
The stated midpoint target of $262,000 reflects Carbon's internal pay equity practice; the full bracket is $209,600–$314,400 with geographic adjustment possible for non-Sunnyvale/Santa Clara locations.
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