Backend Software Engineer (Distributed Systems / Python) at Glint Tech Solutions LLC
San Francisco, CA
$170,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 20, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building and operating the distributed systems behind a GPU compute marketplace — covering resource scheduling, capacity allocation, reservation management, and pricing logic. The work spans service design, cloud infrastructure, and production operations including on-call. Best suited to engineers with solid hands-on experience in Python, distributed systems at scale, and cloud-native deployment.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 810 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 610–1,050
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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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 $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). 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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting lists Palo Alto and San Francisco as locations; the Palo Alto office (where the team is onsite every Monday) falls within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA (41940), which is the best single-metro match.
The hard minimum is 3+ years; 5–8 years is explicitly framed as 'preferred', so the overall years minimum is set to 3. The role's scope (distributed systems at scale, production ownership, architecture participation) is consistent with a Mid-to-Senior band, but the 3-year hard gate and the absence of a 'Senior' title keep this at Mid.
AWS and GCP appear together in the Required Qualifications as 'AWS and/or GCP', making them interchangeable alternatives for the cloud-native deployment requirement. AWS is listed as the primary with GCP as an alternative; GCP is also captured separately as preferred because it appears independently in the Technical Environment section.
Terraform is listed under Required Qualifications with the qualifier 'such as', indicating the specific tool is interchangeable — however, the requirement for Infrastructure as Code experience itself is a hard gate, so Terraform is marked required.
Observability and monitoring appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The posting notes that exceptional candidates may be considered up to $250,000; the standard advertised range of $170,000–$230,000 is used for the compensation fields.
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