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About the Role
Peregrine is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical strategy for scaling the company's cloud footprint. This role involves driving initiatives to enhance performance, reliability, and security while reducing infrastructure costs and improving developer experience. The position offers the potential for leveling up to Principal based on experience and impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical strategy for scaling Peregrine's 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 identify infrastructure bottlenecks.
- Set technical direction for the platform team.
- Provide technical guidance to the traffic engineering team.
- Mentor engineers.
- Review designs.
- Help build a culture of ownership and operational excellence.
- Make it possible to stand up new regions and customer environments with minimal manual work.
- Build autoscaling and right-sizing systems that cut cloud spend without sacrificing headroom.
- Strengthen reliability and incident response for mission-critical services.
- Harden network and platform security controls to meet compliance requirements.
- Build paved-road tooling for product teams to deploy, observe, and debug services.
- Shape technical direction for routing and load balancing at scale in partnership with the traffic engineering team.
Requirements
- Desire and drive to own large, ambiguous infrastructure problems from design through operation.
- Passion for building platforms that make other engineers faster and more confident.
- Deep interest in the tradeoffs between performance, reliability, cost, and security, and comfort making explicit decisions among them.
- Thrive on ambiguity and enjoy diagnosing hard, high-stakes production problems.
- Excellent technical vision, with the ability to turn broad infrastructure goals into a concrete, sequenced roadmap.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience 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 (load balancing, service mesh, autoscaling, CDN/edge routing, capacity planning) to collaborate effectively with our traffic engineering team.
- Track record of driving down cloud costs through architecture and tooling, without compromising reliability.
- Solid grounding in cloud and network security best practices, and experience working within compliance-driven environments.
- Strong instincts for developer experience: building tools, guardrails, and documentation that make the platform easy and safe to use.
- Comfort operating and improving systems under real production load, including on-call ownership and incident response.
Skills
- Cloud infrastructure
- Platform engineering
- Networking
- Traffic systems
- Public cloud platforms
- Container orchestration
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Traffic engineering
- Load balancing
- Service mesh
- Autoscaling
- CDN/edge routing
- Capacity planning
- Cloud cost optimization
- Cloud security
- Network security
- Compliance
- Developer experience
- Tooling
- Guardrails
- Documentation
- Incident response
Location
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Staff
- Principal
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 - $300,000 Annually
Benefits
- Benefits
- Equity (if applicable)
- Bonus (if applicable)
About the Company
- Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
- Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint.
- Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into the enterprise and internationally.
- The Platform team owns the foundation that every product team at Peregrine builds on.
- Our job is to make Peregrine's infrastructure fast, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient, while making it easy for other engineers to ship safely and quickly on top of it.
- We work closely with our traffic engineering team to keep routing, load balancing, and capacity running smoothly as we scale.
- We believe great infrastructure is invisible when it's working and clearly communicated when it isn't.
- We hold ourselves to a high bar on reliability and security, and we treat other engineering teams as our customers, investing in tooling, documentation, and self-service paths that reduce their toil.
Equal Opportunity
- Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.