Senior Software Engineer at CloudBees Inc
Denver, CO
$135,000–$170,000from the description
Aug 12, 2026
Denver, CO
Nov 9, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend-focused Senior Software Engineer role on the Platform Engineering team at CloudBees, responsible for designing and operating the core services and APIs that underpin the company's enterprise software delivery platform. The work centers on building high-throughput, resilient microservices in Go, shaping data and streaming infrastructure, and defining API contracts consumed by other engineering teams. The role suits an experienced engineer who combines strong distributed-systems depth with a product mindset and comfort owning foundational, cross-cutting systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 65 people in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 30–100
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). 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 Aug 15, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting states '3 years working with our tech stack or equivalent' covering Kubernetes, NATS, REST/gRPC/GraphQL, AWS and/or GCP, and relational or NoSQL databases — this is a single bundled requirement; the 3-year figure is applied to the stack as a whole rather than any individual technology.
Kafka and NATS are both listed in the data-layer description ('Kafka/NATs') as part of the platform's streaming infrastructure. NATS appears again in the explicit tech-stack requirement, making it a hard gate; Kafka appears only in the narrative description of the data layer and is marked preferred.
REST, gRPC, and GraphQL are listed together as a single API-contract requirement. They are distinct technologies used alongside each other rather than true substitutes, so each is captured separately; all three are marked required as they appear in the hard-gate tech-stack list.
AWS and GCP are presented as 'AWS and/or GCP' — genuinely interchangeable for this requirement, so GCP is listed as an alternative to AWS.
PostgreSQL and Cassandra are listed as examples of the required database experience ('relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Cassandra)'); both are captured as required since they appear in the explicit tech-stack gate.
Identity and access management (JWTs, SAML, OIDC, multi-tenancy) is listed under the required 'Your background' section; individual protocols are captured as required skills.
AI/ML, LLM integration, agentic frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI), Keycloak, Jenkins/open-source contributions, and DevSecOps/compliance experience all appear under the 'Strong candidates may also' section and are marked preferred.
A BA/BS in Computer Science is listed under the 'Strong candidates may also' (preferred) section, not as a hard requirement; the degree requirement is set to None accordingly.
The role is hybrid (3 days on-site per week in Denver, CO) and is therefore not fully remote.
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