Zededa
Senior Software Engineer - Core Team - San Jose, CA
San Jose, CA · Senior
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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The bottom of this range ($150,000) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $152,797. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Trusted by the world's largest organizations, ZEDEDA is backed by world-class investors, with teams in the United States, Germany, India, and the United Arab Emirates.
- For more information, visit www.ZEDEDA.ai.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate services in a microservice and distributed systems environment
- Drive architectural improvements - scalability, reliability, observability, and developer experience
- Design and develop AI agents that run natively in our infrastructure - owning architecture, tool integration, reliability, and performance
- Collaborate with other engineers and use AI coding agents effectively to accelerate delivery
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for production services
- Solid experience designing and operating microservices and distributed systems at scale
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka and Docker
- Track record of debugging hard problems in production distributed environments
- Familiarity with Python and/or TypeScript/React
- Experience with LLM-based systems, LangGraph, LangChain, or other agent frameworks
Compensation
- For this role the base pay range is $150,000 - $180,000.
- ZEDEDA offers competitive salary, performance-based compensation, comprehensive medical benefits, hybrid work flexibility, and meaningful opportunities for technical growth and advancement.
Benefits
- Pay & Benefits
Company info
- We're looking for an experienced engineer to take ownership of complex, AI-powered systems built on a microservice and distributed architecture.
- Hands-on experience using coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, or similar) as part of your workflow - and a genuine interest in pushing what they can do
- At ZEDEDA, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range.
- This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role.
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
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