Qualtrics
Senior Software Engineer - Unified Orchestration
Reston, Virginia, United States · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$13,838 more — $152,838 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $152,838 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. 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
- Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light.
- You won't have to look to find growth opportunities-ready or not, they'll find you.
- Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that's work worth doing.
Responsibilities
- Regular team-building offsites, quarterly events, and fully stocked snacks, drinks, and catered lunches in
- These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation.
- Taking end-to-end ownership of backend features, from initial scoping and architecture through to production release and ongoing operational support.
- Leading projects by coordinating contributors across cross-functional partners like science, product, and data platform.
- Leveraging operational signals, logs, and metrics to identify errors, eliminate bottlenecks, and prevent dropped documents in distributed workflows.
Requirements
- Proven track record of feature ownership or project leadership, including driving cross-functional coordination.
- Practical operational experience with production monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, scaling, and database technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, model evaluation, or ML experimentation pipelines (hands-on tuning or evaluation is a plus, particularly for ML Topics).
- Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader.
Compensation
- Virginia Base Annual Pay Transparency Range
- $139,000 - $169,000 USD
Benefits
- Family & Medical Leave Act,
- A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer.
- Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability, 401(k) with match, paid time off, a wellness reimbursement, mental health benefits, and an experience bonus.
- For a detailed look at our benefits, visit Qualtrics US Benefits.
- Showing high learning agility to adapt to the team's tech stack (such as Go, TypeScript, Temporal, or Kubernetes) without requiring exact prior matches.
- For full-time positions, this pay range is for base per year; however, base pay offered within this range may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience.
Company info
- But we are more than a platform-we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally.
- When you join one of our teams, you'll be part of a nimble group that's empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them.
- As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act
This listing is sourced directly from Qualtrics's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.