Staff Systems Engineer at Peregrine Technologies
San Francisco, CA
$150,000–$225,000from the description
Jul 22, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding infrastructure engineering role focused on designing and building internal business systems from the ground up — covering identity management, SaaS and cloud platform integrations, workflow automation, and infrastructure-as-code. The position suits a senior systems or IT engineer with strong Python and automation skills who gravitates toward building scalable, self-sustaining platforms rather than reactive support work, and who has experience translating business requirements into technical architecture.
Senior level · 10+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 3–8
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 $132,532 (middle half $103,068–$167,147). 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 (5)
This role sits at the intersection of IT/systems engineering and software development — it is explicitly engineering-first (IaC, workflow automation, API integrations, Python scripting) but its primary domain is internal infrastructure (identity, MDM, SaaS, cloud platforms), making 15-1244 the best fit over 15-1252, though the call is genuinely close.
The 2+ years figure for Microsoft 365 and Azure/AWS is stated as a combined requirement in one sentence; Azure is listed as the primary named cloud with AWS as an alternative, and the 2-year minimum is applied to both.
SOC 2 and FedRAMP appear under an explicit 'is a plus' qualifier and are marked preferred accordingly.
The posting references San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance, strongly implying a San Francisco Bay Area location, though no explicit office address is given.
Bonus and equity are listed as conditional ('if applicable'), so total cash compensation is the $150,000–$225,000 base range.
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