Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The role

A Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy for scaling the cloud footprint. You will drive initiatives to improve performance, reliability, security, and cost-efficiency while making the platform developer-friendly.

What you will do

• Lead technical strategy for scaling the cloud footprint
• Drive initiatives to improve performance and reliability
• Reduce infrastructure cost
• Strengthen security posture
• Make the platform more developer-friendly
• Partner with product engineering teams to address infrastructure bottlenecks
• Set technical direction for the team to execute
• Provide technical guidance to the traffic engineering team
• Mentor engineers and review designs
• Build a culture of ownership and operational excellence

Required qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale
• 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
• Track record of driving down cloud costs through architecture and tooling
• Solid grounding in cloud and network security best practices
• Experience working within compliance-driven environments
• Strong instincts for developer experience
• Comfort operating and improving systems under real production load
• On-call ownership and incident response

Nice to have

• Principal level based on experience and scope of impact

Benefits

• Benefits

About the company

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address challenges with an AI-enabled platform. The company supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries.