Senior Platform Engineer- San Francisco HQ at Orb
San Francisco, CA
$195,000–$265,000
Jul 9, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior platform engineering role focused on two interconnected layers: the infrastructure and developer tooling side (CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, sandboxes, preview environments, and observability), and the application platform side (framework primitives and abstractions that product engineers build on). The position also involves advancing AI-assisted and agent-driven development workflows. It suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives with limited oversight.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“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 40,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 24,000–60,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 (7)
The role is explicitly titled 'senior engineer' and the requirements support that band: 5+ years of experience with meaningful platform ownership at scale.
Terraform is listed as 'Terraform or similar' in the requirements section — it is a hard gate on infrastructure-as-code capability; common substitutes (Pulumi, CloudFormation) are captured in alternatives.
Containers are required but no specific runtime (Docker, Kubernetes) is named; 'containers' is used as the canonical skill name.
The tech stack section (Python, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Spark, etc.) is explicitly framed as 'you do not need experience with these specific tools' — all stack items are marked preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
The caller has designated this a fully-remote, national role; no metro is inferred despite the posting referencing SF Bay Area, New York, and Amsterdam hybrid options.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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