Platform Engineer - Imaging & Provisioning at Vultr
$90,000–$100,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
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Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on building and maintaining operating system images and marketplace applications for a cloud infrastructure provider. Day-to-day work involves migrating legacy provisioning scripts to cloud-init, expanding the catalog of supported Linux, Windows, and BSD distributions, and developing automation tooling with Ansible and Packer. The role suits a systems-oriented engineer with solid experience in OS internals, automated installation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 19,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,050–29,400
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled 'Platform Engineer' with no seniority level in the title; the title states no level. The 3+ years requirement and scope (team-level ownership of OS imaging) support a Mid-level classification.
SOC classification is a close call: the role writes automation code (Ansible, Packer, custom scripts, CI/CD pipelines) pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers, but also has a strong systems/infrastructure operations flavor (OS imaging, bare metal provisioning, PXE boot) that could fit 15-1244. The code-writing and tooling-building emphasis tips it to 15-1252.
No work location is specified beyond remote office setup stipend language; the role appears fully remote with no stated geographic restriction.
PHP is listed under qualifications as 'familiarity with' — a softer qualifier than the other scripting languages — so it is marked preferred.
KVM and QEMU are listed together as a single virtualization technology requirement; KVM is the primary name with QEMU as an alternative. Similarly, iPXE and PXE boot are listed together; iPXE is the primary with PXE as an alternative.
Packer is listed as the primary image-building tool; Kiwi and LiveBuild are named as alternatives in the same requirement ('such as Packer, Kiwi, or LiveBuild').
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