Staff/Principal Software Engineer at Clozd
Lehi, UT
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Jul 5, 2026
Lehi, UT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role spanning both product feature development and the underlying platform, infrastructure, and tooling. The engineer will design and build systems end to end, set technical direction, and help shape architectural decisions across teams, while also mentoring other engineers. The position suits someone with deep experience in both application engineering and platform or DevOps work who is comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems from conception through delivery.
Staff level · Provo-Orem, UT · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people in the Provo-Orem, UT area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 20–55
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 $134,095 (middle half $101,688–$168,179).
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)
The posting is explicitly open to hiring at Staff or Principal level; 'the level advertised in the title' reflects the first-listed title (Staff). The actual scope — org-wide technical direction, cross-team influence, shaping company technical strategy — is consistent with Staff/Principal, and the role is assessed at Staff.
No specific technologies, languages, or frameworks are named anywhere in the posting. The only concrete technical domains called out in the requirements section are distributed systems, data modeling, APIs, and the operational side (observability, deployment, incident response) — these are captured as required skills. DevOps is inferred from the explicit 'platform, infrastructure, or DevOps' requirement language.
AI/LLM leveraging is mentioned as a responsibility ('Steadily increase and improve our AI leveraging efforts') but is not framed as a candidate gate; it appears under 'What You'll Do' rather than 'What We're Looking For', so it is marked preferred.
Prior experience as a technical lead, architect, or equivalent org-wide role is listed explicitly under 'Nice to Have' and is therefore preferred.
No compensation range is stated. No minimum years of experience is stated — the posting explicitly says 'We care about what you can do, not a specific number of years or a particular degree.'
The alt SOC (11-3021, Computer and Information Systems Managers) is flagged because the role includes significant cross-team technical direction-setting and leveling up engineers, which overlaps with management scope — however, the posting emphasizes hands-on coding and IC leverage, making 15-1252 the better primary fit.
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