Senior Software Engineer, Development Platform at Parallel Domain
Vancouver
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Jul 6, 2026
Vancouver
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role on a platform team responsible for the internal SDK, CI/build systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and service interfaces that the rest of the engineering organization depends on. The work spans Python and C++ codebases, databases, gRPC services, and AWS infrastructure, requiring comfort moving across all of it rather than specializing in one area. Best suited to engineers who can take loosely defined, cross-team problems and drive them independently from scoping through delivery.
Senior level · National · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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No work location or city is specified in the posting; the CBSA is left blank. The role may be remote or at Parallel Domain's San Francisco office — the JD does not clarify.
The 'Skills' section is framed as 'the surface area our team works across… technologies that you will interact with on a daily basis' rather than a traditional Required/Preferred split. All listed technologies are treated as hard gates given the daily-interaction framing and the team's explicit ownership of these systems, with the exception of Proto and CMake, which appear as supporting/build tools and are marked preferred.
FastAPI and Flask are listed together as a single entry; FastAPI is named as primary with Flask as an alternative since they serve the same web-framework role.
Jenkins and GitHub Actions are listed together as CI tooling options; Jenkins is named primary with GitHub Actions as the alternative.
AWS sub-services called out (EKS, ECR, S3, RDS, Lambda) are captured under the single AWS skill rather than split into separate entries, as they represent facets of one platform.
Familiarity with simulation in autonomous systems is listed as a domain experience item under the same skills block but reads as contextual/nice-to-have given the softer 'familiarity' framing — omitted as it names no specific technology or tool.
No compensation range is mentioned anywhere in the posting.
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