Principal Software Engineer(s) + Senior Software Engineer(s)
Redmond, WAJobPosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
The Senior Software Engineer will lead the design, delivery, and production operation of data-platform, distributed data-service, or agent-runtime components. The role builds and operates data-intensive systems, improves reliability and security, owns live-site health, and partners across product and engineering teams. The posting describes a baseline bachelor's degree and four years of technical engineering experience, alongside specialized security-screening paths and additional experience qualifications.
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Full job description
Senior Software Engineer(s) Lead the design, delivery, and production operation of significant data-platform, distributed data-service, or agent-runtime components, depending on the team. Build reliable batch or streaming ingestion and processing systems, or distributed services supporting security investigations, analytics, and graph-based workloads. Make sound trade-offs across data quality, performance, reliability, and cost. Use telemetry, tracing, quality measures, and customer feedback to improve scalability, security, recovery, and customer outcomes. Own live-site health and incident response for your components; strengthen testing, deployment practices, and service resilience. Partner across product and engineering teams to resolve dependencies, advocate for customer security and privacy, and mentor engineers through design and code reviews. Establish engineering patterns that improve the security, resilience, and operating efficiency of data-intensive services across the platform. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 6+ years of experience in Java, C++, C, or another object-oriented language, with a strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. 6+ years of experience building, shipping, and operating production-grade software, online services, or fault-tolerant distributed systems; experience launching new products using modern development practices is a plus. 6+ years of experience designing secure, maintainable, well-tested, and performant solutions; using debugging, code reviews, test strategies, and deployment automation to improve quality. Familiarity with agile methods, test-driven development, or AI tools across the software development lifecycle is valued. 6+ years of experience translating customer needs into technical designs, evaluating architectural trade-offs, and working across teams to resolve dependencies. 6+ years of experience setting technical direction and aligning multiple teams on complex solutions is preferred. 6+ years of experience applying security standards and hardening services across layers, paired with curiosity, sound judgment, customer empathy, and a collaborative approach to difficult problems.
How this job compares
Set against the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$144–216K/yr1,978 salary ranges
- Washington median$52–69/hr38 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,212 open Software Engineer jobs in Washington and 42,014 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (34,412 postings).
- Education
- 13,315 of the 42,014 open Software Engineer jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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