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Senior Software Engineers are at the forefront of the digital transformation wave, with 2,565 roles open across AI, cloud-native, and edge computing domains. The demand is driven by companies accelerating cloud migration, adopting microservices architectures, and integrating AI into product pipelines, resulting in a 30% salary premium for candidates who master Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud strategies.

Within the Senior Software Engineer category, roles split into platform architects, DevOps leads, backend specialists, and AI/ML engineers. Typical responsibilities include designing distributed systems that scale to millions of users, building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or ArgoCD, implementing observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and mentoring junior engineers while driving secure coding practices.

Salary transparency is critical for senior engineers because compensation can vary by stack and company size. Knowing the exact pay range for a Kubernetes‑focused role versus a .NET backend role helps engineers negotiate better offers, spot regional wage gaps, and make data‑driven career moves.

Senior Fullstack Engineer

Company: Typeform

Location: Spain

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Typeform is a fully remote company seeking a Senior Fullstack Engineer to shape and evolve their Echo Design System. The role involves building and maintaining fullstack features, designing scalable APIs, improving dev workflows, and collaborating with design. The ideal candidate has experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and CICD pipelines.

Associate Solutions Consultant

Company: Figma

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Figma is seeking a solutions consultant to support their commercial segment and drive growth within the region. The role involves partnering with sales teams, building relationships, addressing security concerns, and creating content to delight customers. The ideal candidate should have 2+ years of experience in presales and postsales, excellent communication skills, and familiarity with the enterprise SaaS ecosystem.

Web Designer (Marketing-Focused)

Company: Outliant

Location: Anywhere

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Ignite Visibility is an award-winning digital marketing agency that delivers best-in-class results through bold thinking and strategic digital solutions. They have recently expanded through the acquisition of Outliant, integrating their product and website development expertise. The company values innovation, ingenuity, and empowers team members to push boundaries and deliver seamless digital experiences.

Software Engineer - Deployment Infrastructure

Company: Vercel

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer position on the CICD team at Vercel. The engineer will own and evolve the infrastructure that powers Vercel's build and deployment lifecycle, design and operate high-performance microservices, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate across teams, shape the long-term vision of CICD, participate in the oncall rotation, contribute to the open-source community, and write clean, efficient, tested, and well-documented code. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating backend applications and distributed systems at scale, strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, cloud infrastructure (AWS), and infrastructure as code (Terraform), a track record of end-to-end ownership, skilled at cross-team collaboration, comfortable setting direction and defining architectural standards, experienced in mentoring and elevating others, and curious, eager to learn, and motivated to push the boundaries of modern software development.

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Pay Group Engineering

Company: Gusto, Inc.

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Gusto is hiring experienced engineers to join their teams working on core platform capabilities, improving existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system. The role involves guiding projects end-to-end, influencing feature specs, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. The Payroll team is the beating heart of Gusto's business, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time while maintaining compliance with complex regulations.

Senior Major Gift Officer

Company: Wikimedia Foundation

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The Senior Major Gift Officer role at the Wikimedia Foundation is a critical position focused on raising major gifts and planned gifts. The role involves managing a portfolio of prospects, cultivating relationships, and securing donations to support the Foundation's mission. The ideal candidate will have fundraising experience, excellent communication skills, and a strong fit with the Wikimedia movement's values and vision.

Senior Backend (Go) Engineer, Gitlab Delivery - Operate

Company: GitLab

Location: North America,Latin America,EMEA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of a Senior Backend Engineer on the GitLab Operate team involves focusing on delivering and supporting GitLab for self-managed customers by building and maintaining infrastructure tooling and automation. The team works across various components like Omnibus GitLab, GitLab Helm Charts, the GitLab Environment Toolkit, and the GitLab Operator to ensure easy deployment, security, and scalability across diverse environments and major cloud providers. The role requires collaborating with multiple teams and providing technical leadership.

Manager - Sales Enablement

Company: Lumos

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of Manager of Sales Enablement involves designing and running programs to improve seller readiness, message consistency, and deal execution quality. The responsibilities include building onboarding programs, launching ongoing enablement, creating field assets, enabling managers to coach, building data loops, defining indicators, partnering with Product Marketing and SE leadership, and deploying AI where appropriate. The ideal candidate should have 6+ years in sales enablement and/or B2B SaaS sales, expertise in MEDDPICC and Command of the Message frameworks, strong facilitation and storytelling skills, program and project management experience, proficiency with GTM technologies, a data-informed mindset, and the ability to build cross-functional relationships.

Associate Support Engineer

Company: GitLab

Location: North America,Latin America

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of Support Engineering at GitLab involves working closely with engineering and product teams to support customers, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to the codebase and documentation. The team collaborates with various departments to build new features, fix bugs, and improve the product. The role requires technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and effective communication.

Senior Digital Strategist

Company: MissionWired

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

MissionWired is a company that helps partners create revolutionary fundraising strategies and digital marketing campaigns for nonprofit organizations and political campaigns. They are looking for a Senior Digital Strategist with experience in digital communications, fundraising, and marketing to join their team. The role involves working with clients to assess their needs, designing and implementing cross-channel digital marketing campaigns, leading project teams, and providing top-quality customer service.

Head of Presales Engineering

Company: Lumos

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of Head of Pre Sales Engineering at Lumos involves leading and scaling the presales team, hiring and mentoring SEs, building the SE operating system, owning demo and POV strategy, partnering with sales leaders, building field assets, creating feedback loops, collaborating with RevOps, and modeling an inclusive culture. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of B2B SaaS pre sales experience, domain fluency, proven lift in technical win rate, mastery of MEDDPICC, operational rigor, excellent communication skills, and the ability to travel as needed.

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Typeform

Location: Germany,Ireland,Netherlands,Portugal,Spain,UK

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Typeform is a fully remote company with a Data & Insights team focused on making data actionable through reports, dashboards, and AI/ML models. The role is a Machine Learning Engineer position, responsible for designing, developing, and deploying scalable ML systems to deliver personalized experiences. The ideal candidate should have 4+ years of experience in building and deploying ML models, strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks, experience with AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and ML lifecycle management tools like MLflow.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the typical salary ranges for Senior Software Engineers?
In the U.S., Senior Software Engineers earn between $120,000 and $200,000 annually, depending on location and tech stack. In Europe, the range is €70,000–€110,000, while in India it spans ₹12,00,000–₹25,00,000. Companies factoring in advanced skills like Kubernetes, Terraform, or AI/ML often push the upper end of these brackets.
Which skills and certifications do Senior Software Engineers need?
Core languages include Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, and Rust. Must‑have tools are Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Prometheus. Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, GCP Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) significantly boost employability.
How common is remote work for Senior Software Engineer roles?
Over 70% of senior engineering positions on the board offer fully remote or hybrid arrangements. Companies in the tech and fintech sectors prioritize flexibility, enabling engineers to work from any location while maintaining collaboration through Slack, Zoom, and remote‑first design reviews.
What career progression paths exist beyond Senior Software Engineer?
Typical trajectories include Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Distinguished Engineer, and Engineering Manager. Advancement often requires leadership in system design, cross‑team mentorship, and ownership of high‑impact projects, as well as contributions to open source or industry standards.
What industry trends are shaping Senior Software Engineer roles today?
Emerging trends include AI‑driven observability, serverless and edge computing, multi‑cloud orchestration, and infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC). Engineers who master cloud‑native patterns, continuous delivery, and data‑centric AI model deployment are in the highest demand.

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