Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Startpage at System1
Seattle, WA
$133,000–$170,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior full-stack engineering role on a privacy-focused search engine, building and shipping new product features across a Python and JavaScript stack. Day-to-day work spans front-end and back-end development, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and production deployments to a high-traffic, internationally distributed service. Suits an experienced developer comfortable owning work end-to-end — from ticket to deployment and monitoring — on a small, fast-moving team.
Senior level · 5+ years · Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,950 people in the Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 820–2,900
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). 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 (8)
The role is described as hybrid (on-site in Bellevue, WA), not fully remote. The CBSA is the Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma metro (14740).
Redis is listed with 'and/or similar caching strategies' — the requirement is for caching experience in latency-sensitive systems; Redis is the named primary tool.
ArgoCD and GitHub Actions are listed together as examples of CI/CD tooling; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the CI/CD requirement rather than two separate hard gates.
New Relic, Datadog, and CloudWatch are listed as examples of monitoring/instrumentation tools; New Relic is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
AWS is listed with 'or other modern cloud provider(s)' — Azure and GCP are the well-known substitutes.
Experience with search, ad tech, or browser-facing privacy products is explicitly called out as 'an asset but not a must' — omitted from the skills list as it names no specific technology.
Privacy-focused product experience is similarly flagged as 'an asset, but not a hard requirement' — no concrete technology to capture.
The salary range ($133,000–$170,000) is stated as base only, excluding bonus and equity.
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