Software Engineer – Cloud Capacity & Automation
Blueprint Technologies · Redmond, WA
$46–$51/hrfrom the description
Jul 22, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role focused on an internal capacity-management initiative for a large-scale cloud storage infrastructure service. Day-to-day work involves building automation tools, developing and enhancing software systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and exploring AI-assisted workflows to improve storage capacity monitoring, allocation, and optimization. Suited to engineers with roughly five to seven years of production software development experience, ideally with C# and exposure to large-scale cloud or infrastructure environments.
Mid level · 5+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,600 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,850–17,400
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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). 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 (8)
The role is posted by Blueprint Technologies, a staffing/consulting firm, and the hourly compensation ($46–$51/hr) strongly indicates this is a contract or contract-to-hire engagement rather than direct full-time employment, despite benefits being mentioned.
The title carries no seniority level. The 5–7 years experience requirement and scope (independent delivery, cross-functional collaboration, no people management) support a Mid-level classification rather than Senior — the upper end of the range is modest and the responsibilities do not indicate end-to-end ownership of a component or project.
C# is listed only under Preferred Qualifications, not in the required section, so it is marked preferred despite being the most prominently named language in the posting.
The required qualifications are largely methodology- and domain-general (SDLC, troubleshooting, automation, cloud systems) with no specific named technologies mandated beyond cloud-based systems and automation tooling. The skills list reflects only concrete named technologies; generic concepts (SDLC, problem-solving, documentation) are omitted per extraction rules.
Exposure to capacity management, large-scale cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows are all listed under Preferred Qualifications.
The role is hybrid (3 days/week on-site in the Bellevue, WA area), so remote=false.
The degree requirement is a hard gate: 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field' with no 'or equivalent experience' language.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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