Staff Software Engineer - Agent Platform at Qualtrics
Seattle, WA
$202,000–$265,000from the description
Aug 18, 2026
Seattle, WA
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff-level software engineering role on Qualtrics' Agent Platform team in Seattle, focused on designing and building the infrastructure that enables AI agent capabilities across the company's SaaS products. The position involves setting technical direction for agent runtime, observability, and governance, collaborating with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product managers, and providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
Staff level · 8+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 220 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 120–290
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.
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 Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title 'Staff Software Developer' explicitly signals a Staff-level role, and the scope — setting technical roadmap for the Agent Platform team, guiding agentic capabilities org-wide, and providing technical supervision to Core AI platform teams — supports that classification.
The degree requirement lists 'Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, AI, or related field' but does not exclude equivalent experience, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Python, Java, and C++ are listed together as interchangeable language options under the requirements section; Python is used as the primary with Java and C++ as alternatives. LangChain/LangGraph are similarly listed as interchangeable AI framework examples.
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) is required but the specific platform is interchangeable; AWS is listed as primary with Azure and GCP as alternatives.
Security and governance for agentic workflows is listed as a hard requirement but names no specific tool or platform, so it is captured as 'AI agent frameworks' covering the agentic workflow context. The governance/security aspect is noted here: the JD states 'Experience with security and governance for agentic workflows' as a required qualification, but names no concrete tool.
'Knowledge of ethical considerations and responsible AI practices' is explicitly called 'a plus' in the posting.
Compensation is the Washington State base pay transparency range of $202,000–$265,000 per year, plus potential sign-on bonus and RSUs.
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