remote

Salary
$140,400–$372,300from the description
Posted
Jul 15, 2026
Location
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A staff-level backend engineering role focused on building and maintaining the distributed systems and APIs that underpin AI-assisted developer tooling. The work spans architectural decision-making, scalability and reliability engineering, and hands-on development across cloud-native environments, alongside technical mentorship and on-call responsibilities. Suited to a seasoned engineer with deep distributed systems experience who is comfortable leading technical direction across teams.

Staff level · 9+ years · Remote · Full-time

Must have (7)
Python or Shell Scripting · 4+ yrsGo or Ruby · 4+ yrsC, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Rustdistributed systemscloud platforms, AWS, Azure or GCP · 5+ yrsCNCF, Kubernetes, Helm or Monitoring · 5+ yrsREST APIs
Nice to have (1)
CI/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

Roughly 5,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,550–10,700

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Go14%

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

What won't set you apart
C62%Python51%cloud platforms50%

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). 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 (7)

The posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual employer is not disclosed.

The compensation range ($140,400–$372,300/yr) is unusually wide, likely reflecting geographic and level variation across approved US remote locations.

The 'strong programming experience' requirement lists C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, and Python as alternatives for a general-purpose language — one skill entry captures this gate with the full alternatives list.

The scripting-language gate (4+ years, Python/Bash or similar) and the general-purpose-language gate (4+ years, Go/Ruby or comparable) are listed as separate hard requirements; Python and Go are named as the primary options respectively, with their stated alternatives captured.

The cloud/CNCF requirement (5+ years) names both cloud environments generally and CNCF technologies as co-equal options; both are captured as a single gate with common substitutes listed.

CI/CD appears only in narrative context ('contribute to continuous integration and delivery processes') rather than under a gating requirements heading.

Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.

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