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Senior Software Engineer - Platform

C3 AI

Company websitec3.ai (C3 AI, opens in new tab)

Base salary $145K  to $198K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Redwood City, CA

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  • LocationRedwood City, CA
  • WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

C3 AI (NYSE: AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise. Learn more at: C3 AI

C3 AI is looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer - Platform to join our Platform Engineering team. You will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the core platform features, frameworks, and development tools used to build enterprise-scale AI applications. Your work will directly support application development, platform scalability, and engineering productivity across the company.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain core platform services, frameworks, and developer tools used across an enterprise-scale AI platform.
  • Design and maintain robust automation for testing, integration, and deployment across a distributed development organization.
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation to provision, manage, and improve cloud environments reliably and consistently.
  • Build and maintain internal tools and services that improve engineering productivity, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
  • Support engineering workflows, release automation, version control integration, code validation, and platform rule enforcement.
  • Improve the reliability, scalability, maintainability, and operational quality of platform services, frameworks, and automation systems.
  • Partner closely with software engineering and product management teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality platform capabilities.
  • Own features end-to-end, including design, documentation, implementation, testing, maintenance, and mentoring engineers on engineering standards and best practices.

Qualifications:

  • B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 3+ years of backend, platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering experience in production environments. 
  • Strong hands-on experience with Java and one or more scripting or automation languages such as Python, Shell, or Groovy. 
  • Experience designing, maintaining, and improving CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, and testing workflows.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform, and cloud environment provisioning or management.
  • Familiarity with Go for infrastructure tooling, automation, or cloud platform development.
  • Experience designing and developing scalable platform services, frameworks, APIs, developer-facing tools, or engineering workflow systems.
  • Hands-on understanding of software development principles, design patterns, testing, debugging, observability, and performance analysis.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach with a strong sense of ownership, independence, and operational accountability.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across engineering, infrastructure, release, and product teams.

C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan. 

California Base Pay Range

$145,000—$198,000 USD

C3 AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics, including disabled and veteran status. 

Source: C3 AI on Greenhouse · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($145,000) is above 21% of the 4,280 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 35 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,362; the middle half runs from $149,100 to $204,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live C3 AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live C3 AI roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Senior Software Engineer - Platform (this listing)$145K - $198K
Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Data + AI (Back-End)$145K - $187K
Lead/Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack – AI Studio$145K - $219K
Product Marketing Manager$149K - $175K
Senior Software Engineer - Generative AI$150K - $198K
Executive Assistant to the CEO$150K - $250K
Executive Assistant to the CEO$150K - $250K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All C3 AI roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

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  2. Began meeting the published-salary criteria
Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-07-16
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USD 145,000 – 198,000 · interval unstated · pay_input_range · California Base Pay Range · base-labelled (R1: Base Pay)

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