Platform Engineer at Pano AI
San Francisco, CA
$146,000–$220,000
Jul 12, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role at a wildfire detection company, focused on scaling, securing, and monitoring infrastructure across the organization. Day-to-day work spans maintaining production systems, building and improving CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure provisioning via IaC tools, and supporting development workflows — primarily on Google Cloud Platform. Suited to an experienced engineer comfortable operating at scale in a startup setting while also mentoring on tooling and best practices.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 4 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 13,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,100–20,100
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 JD gates on 3+ years of cloud experience and names GCP, AWS, and Azure as interchangeable options; GCP is listed as the primary platform and is also called out separately under preferred skills (GKE, GCS, IAM), so it is captured as the primary with AWS/Azure as alternatives.
Docker and Kubernetes are listed together under a single containerization/orchestration requirement with 'e.g.' framing, indicating interchangeability within that gate; they are emitted as a pair with each as the other's alternative.
Terraform is the primary IaC tool named; Pulumi and Puppet appear as 'e.g.' alternatives within the same required bullet.
Python and Bash appear only under the preferred skills section and are treated accordingly.
MLOps tools for model serving/inference and observability, AI/ML infrastructure experience, and SOC2/ISO 27001 familiarity all appear exclusively under the preferred skills section.
No compensation figures are provided; the posting describes a qualitative compensation philosophy only.
The role title 'Platform Engineer' carries no seniority level word; the title states no level. The 5+ year overall and 3+ year platform/SRE/DevOps requirements, combined with the scope (scaling, securing, and monitoring systems org-wide), support a Senior classification.
The alt SOC 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) was considered given the operational/infrastructure framing, but the JD explicitly expects code-writing, IaC authoring, CI/CD pipeline development, and platform engineering — consistent with 15-1252 Software Developers as the primary classification.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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