Platform Engineer
Vultr
$90,000–$100,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role focused on hardening and scaling a global cloud infrastructure platform. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes internals, container runtime integrations, infrastructure automation with Terraform and Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline development, all written primarily in Go. The role also involves contributing to open-source tooling and improving security, observability, and reliability of cloud-native services at scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,300–11,800
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 level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 5+ years requirement and scope of responsibilities support a Senior classification.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role writes and ships production code in Go (contributing to terraform-provider-vultr, govultr, vultr-cli, crossplane) and builds CI/CD pipelines, pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers. However, it also has a strong infrastructure operations and Kubernetes administration dimension (scheduler, kubelet, CRDs, container runtime, networking), which could support 15-1244. 15-1252 was chosen because the JD explicitly requires Go proficiency and direct open-source code contributions.
No work location is specified beyond the remote office stipend language; the role appears fully remote within the US.
containerd and runc appear together in the responsibilities section as the container runtime stack; containerd is marked required (listed under Qualifications as 'container runtime integrations'), while runc is listed only in the responsibilities narrative and marked preferred.
HAProxy, Crossplane, and Grafana appear in the responsibilities/stack narrative rather than the Qualifications block and are marked preferred accordingly.
The compensation range ($90,000–$100,000/year) is notably narrow and on the lower end for a senior platform/infrastructure engineer role; the posting notes final comp varies by experience, background, and location.
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