San Francisco, CAremote

Salary
Posted
Jul 5, 2026
Location
San Francisco, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior-level platform engineering role focused on building internal developer platforms from scratch — not maintaining existing ones. Day-to-day work centers on constructing self-service portals with Backstage, GitOps delivery pipelines with Argo CD or Flux, workflow orchestration with Argo Workflows, and production Kubernetes infrastructure, alongside load testing and policy enforcement. The role suits an experienced engineer who has personally designed and owned these systems end to end, working remotely embedded within enterprise client environments.

Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time

Must have (15)
BackstageArgo WorkflowsArgo CD or Flux CdKubernetesk6KyvernoLinuxGolang, Python, TypeScript, Shell Scripting, Ruby or RustAWS, GCP or AzureTerraformHelm or KustomizeDockerPrometheus or SplunkAnsible or PackerGitOps
Nice to have (1)
Atlantis

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 3,550 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 730–6,400

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Backstage2%Ansible8%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Docker53%Golang51%Linux45%

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 (8)

The role is explicitly framed as building internal developer platforms from scratch — designing catalog models, writing software templates, and owning GitOps reconciliation loops — making 15-1252 (Software Developers) the clear primary SOC. 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the heavy infrastructure-operations framing in parts of the posting.

Argo CD and Flux CD are presented as interchangeable ('Argo CD or Flux CD') in the responsibilities section; Argo CD is listed as the primary required tool in the 'You Have' section, so it is the canonical name with Flux CD as an alternative.

The programming language requirement ('one or more of: Golang, Python, TypeScript, Bash, Ruby, or Rust') is a single requirement with interchangeable options; Golang is listed first and used as the primary name.

Terraform is listed alongside Atlantis ('Terraform + Atlantis') in the requirements section. Atlantis is a workflow automation layer for Terraform rather than a true substitute, so it is emitted as a separate preferred skill rather than an alternative — it appears in a parenthetical 'understanding of' framing alongside CloudFormation, which is treated as an alternative to Terraform.

Monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, Splunk, ELK) are listed as a single 'experience with' requirement; Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.

The 'Extra Awesome' section (open-source contributions, compliance environments, certifications) is treated as preferred/nice-to-have and no skills from it are marked as required.

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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