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Staff Software Engineer
$206K–$302K
Bellevue · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years; requirements include 3 years in specified software development, cloud, and distributed systems areas, and 2 years in specified data engineering and database areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Engineering or related field.
About the job
Designs and operates scalable backend data pipelines, APIs, and integrations for large-scale content catalog and metadata, while bringing machine-learning models and algorithms into production.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize distributed data pipelines, integrations, and RESTful APIs; ensure data quality, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate with data scientists and machine learning engineers on feature engineering and model-serving pipelines.
- Contribute to backend and data infrastructure architecture; optimize data storage, retrieval, and observability.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in the job offered or a related role.
- 3 years of experience with software development in Python, Java, or Scala; cloud services on AWS, GCP, or Azure; and production distributed systems.
- 2 years of experience with distributed data pipelines, RESTful APIs and backend services, relational and NoSQL databases, and data modeling and query optimization.
Pay
$206,086 - $302,200 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Scala, AWS, GCP, Azure, Apache Spark, RESTful APIs
AI focus
Integrate machine-learning models and algorithms into production, including feature engineering and model-serving pipelines.
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