San Francisco, CA

Salary
Posted
Jul 20, 2026
Location
San Francisco, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A backend-focused software engineering role at an early-stage AI startup building enterprise automation products, starting with lending and due-diligence workflows. Day-to-day work spans designing and maintaining APIs, distributed services, and platform infrastructure, as well as integrating LLMs, retrieval pipelines, and agentic frameworks into production systems. Suited to engineers with solid backend fundamentals who want hands-on exposure to AI platform engineering in a cross-functional, fast-moving environment.

Mid level · 3+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time

Must have (5)
Java, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript or C++backend servicesAPIsdistributed systemscloud platforms, AWS, Azure or GCP
Nice to have (8)
DockerKubernetesLLMsLangChain, Llamaindex, Crewai or AutogenRAGMLOpsknowledge graphsinfrastructure as code

“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 7,700 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,050–10,100

Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.

What won't set you apart
Java62%cloud platforms50%

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 title is 'Software Engineer, AI Platform' with no level modifier — advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and scope (contributing to a team platform, no org-wide authority) support a Mid-level classification.

The required language list is explicitly interchangeable ('one or more of: Java, Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C++'); Java is used as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives.

Cloud platform experience is required but no specific provider is named; AWS, Azure, and GCP are listed as alternatives.

Containers and 'modern deployment practices' appear in the required section but Kubernetes and Docker are only named under 'Good To Have' — they are marked preferred accordingly.

LLMs, RAG, agent frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen), MLOps, knowledge graphs, and infrastructure as code all appear under the 'Good To Have' section and are marked preferred.

No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.

Headquarters is Los Altos, CA, which falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA. The posting does not explicitly state remote eligibility, so remote is set to false.

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