Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage at Jobgether
$212,000–$286,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on designing and operating large-scale distributed storage systems — covering persistence layers, write-ahead logs, metadata stores, caching, and tiered storage — that underpin cloud-based workflow execution. The position involves technical leadership: shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving reliability and performance improvements. It suits an experienced backend/distributed-systems engineer comfortable owning complex infrastructure across major cloud platforms.
Staff level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,400–3,450
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). 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 posted via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual employer is not disclosed in the JD.
Go and Java are listed as interchangeable examples of 'advanced programming experience in languages such as Go, Java, or similar backend technologies' — Go is captured as the primary with Java as an alternative.
AWS is the explicitly named cloud platform required; Azure and GCP are called out as a plus and are captured as preferred alternatives.
Elasticsearch and ClickHouse appear under 'Familiarity with technologies such as…' — framed as illustrative examples rather than hard gates, so treated as preferred.
Knowledge of workflow engines, transactional logs, LSM trees, columnar storage, Kubernetes controllers, and multi-region HA systems is described as 'highly valued' (not required); Kubernetes is captured as preferred to represent this cluster of advanced topics.
Open source contribution is listed twice — once as a plus in requirements and once in accountabilities as a general expectation; treated as preferred given the explicit 'is a plus' qualifier in the requirements section.
The seniority assessment of Staff is supported by the JD's explicit 'Staff Software Engineer' title AND by the described scope: cross-team technical leadership, architecture ownership, mentoring, and influencing engineering decisions across multiple teams — consistent with a Staff-level IC role.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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