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Compensation
$141–263K/yr
Location
WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Job Title Confluent - Staff Systems Engineer

Date posted 22-Oct-2026

Job ID 137253

City / Township / Village POUGHKEEPSIE, LOWELL, ROCHESTER, TUCSON, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Armonk, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle

State / Province Georgia, Minnesota, T

Full job description

Job Title Confluent - Staff Systems Engineer

Date posted 22-Oct-2026

Job ID 137253

City / Township / Village POUGHKEEPSIE, LOWELL, ROCHESTER, TUCSON, RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, Armonk, Boston, Bellevue, Atlanta, San Jose, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle

State / Province Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts, California

Country United States

Work arrangement Remote

Area of work Infrastructure & Technology

Employment type Regular

Contract type Regular

Projected Minimum Salary per year 141,000.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year 263,000.00

Position type Professional

Travel required Some travel may be required based on business demand

Company (0147) International Business Machines Corporation

Shift General (daytime)

Is this role a commissionable/sales incentive based position? No

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How this job compares

Set against the 11,497 open Systems Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$141–263K/yr
  • Washington median$129–194K/yr301 salary ranges
  • US median$116–190K/yr8,430 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $202K, is 25% above the Washington median midpoint ($162K) — in the top quarter of Systems Engineer salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 361 open Systems Engineer jobs in Washington and 11,497 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
Systems Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 8 years (9,601 postings).
Education
4,536 of the 11,497 open Systems Engineer jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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