San Francisco, CA

Salary
$165,000–$200,000
Posted
Jul 28, 2026
Location
San Francisco, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 29, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A backend-focused software engineering role at an early-stage company building simulation and geospatial processing platforms on GCP. The engineer will design and own APIs, orchestrate compute-heavy batch workloads, and establish platform security and observability. The role suits an experienced backend generalist comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure, multi-tenant systems, and mentoring peers as the team grows.

Senior level · 7+ years · Full-time

Must have (5)
PythonGCP · 3+ yrsREST, Grpc or GraphQLDockerKubernetes
Nice to have (7)
Cloud RunGKEPub/SubCloud StorageTerraformCloud BuildCI/CD

“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

What gives you an edge
GCP13%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%Python51%

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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The posting title carries no seniority label, but the 7+ years requirement and scope (architecture decisions, mentoring, platform ownership) support a Senior classification.

Cloud Run, GKE, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage appear in the responsibilities narrative describing the team's GCP stack rather than in the Required Qualifications block; they are marked preferred accordingly.

Terraform and Cloud Build appear only under Preferred Qualifications.

CI/CD is listed under Preferred Qualifications alongside Terraform.

Observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing) is required but names no specific product, so no concrete skill entry was emitted for it.

The alt SOC (15-1244) is noted because the role has meaningful infrastructure/orchestration responsibilities, but the primary day-to-day work is clearly building and shipping backend software.

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