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But we are more than a platform-we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention-but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.\nWhen 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. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone 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. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.\nSoftware Engineer I - XMD\nWhy We Have This Role\nQualtrics is seeking a Software Engineer I to join our XM Directory (XMD) Engineering team in our Seattle office. If you have a Bachelor’s degree, some software engineering experience or relevant internships, and want to work at a fast-growing tech company, Qualtrics could be the place you’ve been dreaming about.\nYou should love building simple solutions to solve hard customer problems and designing systems in an agile environment to withstand hyper growth.\nHow You’ll Find Success \nAbility to create trust in customers and teams through thorough communication\nStrong level of curiosity\nTakes initiative and shows scrappiness in getting things done, and asks for help early when blocked\nProven ability to work well in teams - partnering with managers, cross-functional teams, and teammates\nTakes an analytical mindset to approach problems and find solutions\nShows a desire to learn new skills and grow in the role\nHow You’ll Grow \nDevelop the ability to build scalable, fast, robust, and simple SaaS solutions.\nLearn dev tools, operational tools, test tools, and containerization.\nLearn to implement functionality from well-defined technical requirements and specifications.\nBenefit from working with other engineers, tech-ops, and product managers.\nLearn Agile methodologies by attending daily stand-up meetings, prioritizing tasks, and working with a sense of urgency to meet a scheduled plan to deliver value to our customers.\nThings You’ll Do\nBuild backend services and web interfaces while learning our stack\nImplement features and fix bugs with guidance from teammates, using AI-assisted tools to work faster and learn more\nWork with senior engineers to break down requirements, and make sure what you build works\nWrite well-tested code, review your own and AI-assisted work carefully, and give and receive feedback in code reviews\nLearn our codebase and tools, and ask questions early\nCollaborate with teammates, product, and design in the team’s agile practices to deliver value to customers\nWhat We’re Looking For On Your Resume\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field\nPrior software engineering experience through internships, co-ops, academic coursework, or personal/open-source projects\nSolid algorithms, data structures, and coding fundamentals\nExposure to web infrastructure and distributed systems\nFamiliarity or experience with modern developer tools, git, unit testing, and continuous deployment concepts\nFoundational understanding of clean coding principles, with a strong eagerness to learn, take guidance, and contribute to team goals\nWhat You Should Know About This Team \nEvery great experience starts with knowing who you’re talking to. XM Directory is where that knowledge lives.\nWhen a customer, employee, or other stakeholder interacts with a company, XM Directory can capture it and remember it. Over time, those moments add up to living profiles that show what people like, what they need, and how every interaction makes them feel.\nThat experience context helps close the Experience Gap, the distance between what people expect and what companies deliver, and it lets AI, including our Experience Agents, act in the moments that matter. As Qualtrics builds its next-generation XM Data & AI Platform, you’ll work on the data layer it depends on.\nBehind that is an engineering team solving big-data problems: storage systems built to hold stakeholder data at scale, and computation and serving layers that make it fast and useful the moment someone needs it. When AI is acting inside a live customer moment, that data has to be fresh, accurate, and fast to reach. We pick the right tool for each job from a broad toolkit of open source and industry-proven technologies, including Elasticsearch, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Kinesis, Redis, and more.\nAs a Software Engineer I on the XMD team, you’ll build on your skills in distributed systems, frontend development, and databases. You’ll learn from senior engineers, take on meaningful problems early, and help build the data foundation that AI-powered experiences depend on.\nOur Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits\nWe spend 10% of our time on individual engineering growth activities every quarter\nWe participate in personalized Career Action Planning. You will work with your manager to design a plan based on your life experiences, values, and career aspirations (inside and outside Qualtrics) that helps you achieve your career goals at Qualtrics\nVariable allowances for wellness, meals, transportation, and more.\nThe Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. These purposeful in-person days in thoughtfully designed offices help us do our best work and harness the power of collaboration and innovation. For the rest of the week, work where you want, owning the integration of work and life. #hybrid\nQualtrics is an equal opportunity employer meaning that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.\nApplicants in the United States of America have rights under Federal Employment Laws:Family & Medical Leave Act,Equal Opportunity Employment, Employee Polygraph Protection Act\nQualtrics is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Qualtrics will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please let your Qualtrics contact/recruiter know.\nNot finding a role that’s the right fit for now? Qualtrics Insiders is the one-stop shop for all things Qualtrics Life. Sign up for exclusive access to content created with you in mind and get the scoop on what we have going on at Qualtrics - upcoming events, behind the scenes stories from the team, interview tips, hot jobs, and more. No spam - we promise! You'll hear from us two times a month max with fresh, totally tailored info - so be sure to stay connected as you explore your best role and company fit.\nFor 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. 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