Staff Software Engineer (Athena) at Jobgether
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Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor backend role centred on designing and building large-scale infrastructure for processing vulnerability data, managing remediation workflows, and supporting enterprise customers. The work involves data pipelines, workflow and entitlement systems, and cloud-based services written in Go, with an expectation of setting architectural direction and engineering standards across the team. Suits an experienced backend engineer comfortable with technical ownership in a fully remote setting.
Staff level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 6,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,000–10,000
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.
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 (6)
This posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual hiring employer and its full requirements may differ from what is presented here.
GCP and Terraform appear together in a single requirements-section bullet ('cloud infrastructure, particularly GCP and Terraform') — they are distinct technologies both named as required and are emitted as separate skills.
Background in security, infrastructure, software supply chain, or related domains is explicitly called 'a plus' — treated as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided anywhere in the posting.
The role is described as a high-impact individual contributor (IC) with cross-team technical influence, consistent with Staff-level scope; the title also explicitly states 'Staff Software Engineer'.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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