Senior/Staff Platform Engineer at CodeRabbit
San Francisco, CA
$220,000–$280,000
Jul 16, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
The founding platform engineering hire at this AI-focused software company, responsible for designing and building the compute, orchestration, and infrastructure layer from scratch across a multi-region GCP environment. The role involves setting architectural direction, writing Kubernetes operators and controllers, managing distributed systems at scale, and establishing the foundational patterns the rest of engineering will build on. Suited to a senior engineer with deep Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems experience who prefers building platforms over operating them.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,500–16,100
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).
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 (9)
The role is titled 'Platform Engineer' with no seniority modifier, but the 7+ years requirement, 0-to-1 founding scope, and expectation of setting technical direction and making early architectural calls all support a Senior classification.
SOC confidence is Medium: the posting strongly emphasizes building platforms, writing operators/controllers, and programming in Go/TypeScript — pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers — but the infrastructure and operations framing (GCP, Kubernetes, SRE background) makes 15-1244 a plausible runner-up.
Cloud platform requirement names GCP as primary with AWS as an acceptable alternative ('GCP or AWS'); both are captured accordingly.
Programming language requirement is Go or Node.js/TypeScript — genuinely interchangeable for this role's tooling and automation work; Go is listed as the primary name with TypeScript as the alternative.
Observability tooling lists Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana as equivalents ('or equivalent'); Datadog is named first with Prometheus and Grafana as alternatives.
eBPF appears in the 'Systems' technical skills block alongside Linux internals and networking fundamentals. It is listed as a named technology within a required section but reads more as depth context than a standalone gate; marked preferred to avoid over-gating.
GKE and Cloud Run are specific GCP sub-products called out in the Technical Skills block as stack context rather than standalone gates; marked preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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