Senior Software Engineer (Cloud Architect) at SkyGrid
Austin, TX
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Jul 15, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing and owning cloud-based architectures for safety-critical aviation systems, including airspace management and autonomous aircraft operations. The work spans topology analyses, software architecture documentation (SDDs, ICDs), DevSecOps pipeline design, and supporting certification efforts under standards such as DO-178C. It suits an experienced cloud architect with a background in aerospace, defense, or similarly regulated environments.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 92,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 38,800–138,500
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.
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 (11)
The caller has directed that this role be treated as fully remote with a national candidate pool; the posting itself describes it as 'hybrid preferred, but can be considered fully remote.'
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is titled 'Cloud Architect' and centers on architecture design and documentation (SDDs, ICDs, trade studies), which sits at the boundary between Software Developers (15-1252) and Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299). The primary day-to-day work — designing, developing, and owning cloud-based software architectures — aligns most closely with 15-1252.
The cloud platform requirement lists AWS, Azure, or GCP as interchangeable options; AWS is named first and used as the primary skill with the others in alternatives.
'Secure architecture design' and 'distributed systems' are listed under the required qualifications as 'strong knowledge of' — treated as hard gates.
DO-178C compliance experience is explicitly listed under required qualifications and is a meaningful hard gate for this aerospace/safety-critical domain.
DevSecOps pipelines and CI/CD are mentioned as responsibilities rather than under a formal qualifications heading; treated as preferred context rather than hard gates.
Avionics/embedded systems integration appears in the responsibilities section only, not in qualifications; treated as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
A Master's degree is listed under Preferred Qualifications; the hard-required minimum is a Bachelor's degree.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): cloud architecture, secure architecture design.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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