Principal Platform Engineer, AI & Infrastructure at True Anomaly
Denver
$255,000–$375,000from the description
Jul 26, 2026
Denver
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role at a space defense company, responsible for setting the technical direction of AI and infrastructure across the platform engineering organization. The work spans agentic AI systems, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and developer tooling — including hands-on design and delivery of high-ambiguity platform problems — while also advising engineering and business teams on AI adoption. Suits a deeply experienced engineer comfortable owning cross-organizational technical strategy and mentoring others.
Principal level · 12+ years · Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO · Top Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $140,636 (middle half $126,359–$175,118). 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 (8)
The role is titled 'Principal Platform Engineer' and explicitly described as the most senior individual contributor — the Principal seniority band is directly supported by both the title and the org-wide technical authority described in the JD.
An alt SOC of 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers) is noted because the role carries significant cross-org technical direction-setting, roadmap ownership, and mentoring responsibilities; however, the JD explicitly frames this as an individual contributor role with no direct reports, so 15-1252 is the primary classification.
Three office locations are listed (Denver CO, Long Beach CA, Washington DC) with different salary bands. The Denver range ($255K–$355K) is used as the primary comp floor/ceiling since it is listed first; the Washington DC / Long Beach ceiling of $375K is the true maximum across all locations.
The clearance requirement is stated as 'ability to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret security clearance' — this is a hard gate on clearance eligibility. An active TS is listed under Preferred Skills, so the required gate is the ability to obtain TS (not an active clearance at time of hire).
The role is hybrid/onsite (at least 3 days/week in office) — remote is false.
'Containers and orchestration' appears under Preferred Skills; Kubernetes is the dominant orchestration tool and is listed as a preferred skill accordingly.
Compensation range spans multiple cities; the figures represent the full cross-location spread ($255K min Denver to $375K max Long Beach/DC).
Requires a Top Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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