Peregrine
Staff Software Engineer, Platform
$240K–$300K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 8+ years; role may be leveled to Principal based on experience and scope of impact.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Lead technical strategy and hands-on initiatives to scale Peregrine’s cloud platform, improving reliability, performance, security, cost efficiency, and developer experience.
What you'll do
- Set platform technical direction and lead infrastructure initiatives, including regional and customer environment automation, autoscaling, and cloud cost reduction.
- Strengthen reliability, incident response, security, and compliance; build tools that help product teams deploy, observe, and debug services.
- Partner with product engineering and traffic engineering teams, provide technical guidance, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale, with direct ownership of platform, networking, or traffic systems.
- Hands-on experience with major public cloud platforms, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Working knowledge of traffic engineering concepts, including load balancing, service mesh, autoscaling, CDN/edge routing, and capacity planning.
- Experience reducing cloud costs, applying cloud and network security practices in compliance-driven environments, and operating production systems with on-call and incident response.
Pay
$240,000 — $300,000 USD (base salary)
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