We’re hiring a Software Engineer on behalf of a Haystack partner in Washington, United States. This role involves designing, building, and operating high-scale, highly available distributed services that power a core evaluation engine for cloud compliance, with full ownership across design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and support.
About This Software Engineer Role
Core Focus: High-scale, highly available distributed services powering a cloud compliance evaluation engine
Ownership Scope: Full lifecycle ownership — design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and support
Domain: Cloud compliance, enforcement, and remediation across customer cloud resources
Team Structure: Collaboration with partner teams across the broader cloud governance ecosystem
🇺🇸 Why This Role in Washington Matters
High Compensation: Competitive annual salary of $143,700–$194,400 plus potential sign-on bonuses and stock units
Growth-Stage Impact: Directly shape platform scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency as customer adoption grows
High Autonomy: Real ownership over projects with the opportunity to drive meaningful improvements
Work-Life Balance: Collaborative, supportive team environment with flexible scheduling
Position Overview
This Software Engineer role in Washington involves designing, building, and operating high-scale, highly available distributed services for a cloud compliance evaluation engine. You will own solutions across the full lifecycle, improve platform scalability and reliability as evaluation volume grows, build new capabilities for compliance enforcement and remediation, participate in on-call rotations and root cause analysis, and collaborate closely with partner teams across the cloud governance ecosystem.
Why This Role Matters: As Software Engineer, you build and operate the distributed systems that power a core cloud compliance evaluation engine used by real customers, take full ownership across the software development lifecycle rather than working on isolated tasks, directly influence platform scalability and reliability as adoption and evaluation volume grow, and earn a competitive salary with stock units and sign-on bonus potential in a high-autonomy, collaborative environment.
About This Cloud Compliance Engineering Opportunity
This Software Engineer role, hired through a Haystack partner, sits at the center of a cloud compliance evaluation engine that helps customers evaluate, enforce, and remediate compliance across their cloud resources. Based in Washington, the role offers high ownership, competitive compensation including stock units, and the opportunity to directly shape platform scalability and reliability as customer adoption grows.
Apply via Haystack: Interested candidates should apply through Haystack to be considered for this opportunity with the partner company.
Who Should Apply?
- Backend/Distributed Systems Engineers: With 3+ years of professional software development experience
- Cloud/DevOps-Minded Engineers: Comfortable with on-call rotations and operational ownership
- Systems Architects: With hands-on design pattern and scaling experience
- Computer Science Graduates: With object-oriented design and full SDLC experience
- Cloud Compliance/Security Professionals: Interested in cloud governance and remediation systems
