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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 19 days Kargo's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Kargo's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Kargo
- high 19 stale, 0 reposted of 31 open
- Hiring momentum
- 40 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Kargo's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Kargo.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer II at Kargo, you will be responsible for designing and building distributed services for the modernization of the Kargo Workflow Platform. Your role will involve owning projects from design to deployment, improving platform health, and mentoring less experienced engineers. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and utilize AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code quality.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Kargo as an employer.
What you need
- 5–8 years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time in distributed or high-scale backend systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern, high-performance language; TypeScript and/or Golang strongly preferred
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, availability, fault tolerance, event-driven architecture, and service orchestration
- Experience building and maintaining microservices in production at meaningful scale; async messaging (Kafka, Pub/Sub) or workflow engines a strong plus
- Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and debugging production issues using monitoring and distributed tracing
- Active user of AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent) with real, demonstrated productivity gains
Nice to have
- AdTech, programmatic, or real-time systems experience a plus
What you get
- Base salary range of $185,000 — $200,000 USD
- Eligible for variable compensation — either the Kargo Sales Incentive Plan or an annual discretionary bonus
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work options
- Role involves significant ownership and responsibility, which may require a high level of self-management
- Focus on modernizing existing systems may involve dealing with legacy code or architecture
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Listed by Kargo on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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