Staff Software Engineer (Hybrid)
KnowBe4 · Clearwater, FL
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Jul 15, 2026
Clearwater, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role on the core product architecture team, focused on full-stack work spanning a Ruby on Rails backend, Vue/SvelteKit frontends, and AWS serverless infrastructure spread across multiple regions. The position centers on owning major subsystems — GraphQL APIs, event-driven messaging, multi-tenant data patterns, and a large Lambda-backed background processing framework — while guiding code quality and architectural decisions for other engineers. It suits an experienced engineer with a strong background in compliance-regulated, high-traffic distributed systems.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,100–4,700
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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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)
No work location or office is specified in the posting; the role appears to be remote-eligible based on KnowBe4's known distributed workforce model, but the JD does not explicitly state 'remote'.
The degree requirement is tiered: BS + 10 years, MS + 5 years, or PhD + 4 years. Because equivalent experience paths exist at each level, no single degree is a hard gate — the overall years minimum is set to 10 (the BS path, which is the most common and least restrictive in terms of degree).
Vue is listed as the preferred frontend framework ('Vue Preferred, SvelteKit or React'), making it the primary named skill; SvelteKit and React are captured as alternatives on that skill. SvelteKit also appears separately as a required frontend delivery technology ('SvelteKit/TypeScript frontends') in the Requirements section, so it is retained as a distinct preferred skill reflecting its stack presence.
Specific AWS sub-services (Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, ECS/Fargate) are called out in the Requirements section but as illustrative stack context rather than individually gated skills; they are marked preferred to avoid over-counting hard gates, while AWS itself is marked required.
DynamoDB and Redis appear in the Data Strategy requirement alongside MySQL/PostgreSQL; MySQL and PostgreSQL are the explicitly tuning-focused gates, so DynamoDB and Redis are marked preferred as supporting stack context.
FedRAMP Moderate, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance experience is called out as a leadership qualification ('building for compliance-regulated environments') but names no specific tool or technology, so it is not emitted as a skill.
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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