Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform Foundations
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The sample titles span a wide band of seniority and specialisation. Entry and mid-level postings, such as the Plaid backend role, focus on building and maintaining scalable APIs and financial connectivity systems, typically requiring a few years of hands-on engineering experience. Senior and staff-level roles, including Stripe's Staff Software Engineer, Payment Systems, shift toward technical strategy, defining standards, and leading design across portfolios of products. The Google Cloud Storage AI/ML role involves building storage agents and writing production code for large-scale distributed systems, with an explicit degree and experience requirement stated in the posting. The Lyft security engineering role centres on backend systems for detection and response at scale. Across the sample, distributed systems, API design, and cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams appear consistently, whether the context is payments, cloud infrastructure, or AI tooling.
Skill counts reflect how often each term appears in posting descriptions across all postings on this page, not formal requirements. Python and API work are the most broadly mentioned, followed by AWS, Java, and Kubernetes. C++, cloud platforms, TypeScript, and AI-related terms such as agents and LLMs appear in a meaningful but smaller share. Computer vision features in a notable minority, likely concentrated among the defence-sector employers. No single skill appears in every posting.
The employers' own advertised ranges, for individual roles at different levels — not an average and not a market rate.
The clear majority of postings on this page are listed as onsite, with hybrid arrangements covering a smaller portion and a handful explicitly marked remote. No postings have an unknown work mode. Where hybrid is stated, the Lyft posting specifies three days per week in Seattle as an example, but other postings do not always detail the split. The Plaid backend posting notes San Francisco and New York offices while appearing in this Seattle listing, so candidates should verify the expected work location directly with each employer before applying.
Jobs checked 10 hours ago. · Guide reviewed 9 September 2026.
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