Senior Platform Engineer
GumGum · Santa Monica, CA
$186,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 23, 2026
Santa Monica, CA
Jul 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on designing and building an AI-driven, spec-based software development platform from the ground up. The work spans evaluating existing frameworks, making build-vs-adopt decisions, architecting tooling for spec authoring and agent orchestration, and rolling the platform out across engineering. Close collaboration with DevOps, ML Engineering, and Security is central to the day-to-day. Suits an experienced platform or developer-experience engineer with a strong product mindset.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,000 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 770–1,350
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 $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). 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 (6)
GumGum lists a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field as a requirement but explicitly accepts 'equivalent hands-on experience' as a substitute, so no formal degree is hard-gated.
The role is described as hybrid/flexible — not fully remote. Candidates must be within commutable distance of a GumGum office (primary US office is in Los Angeles, CA), so remote=false is applied.
AWS, Kubernetes, and Python are listed together in the requirements section with the qualifier 'working knowledge … with enough depth to partner credibly' — they are hard gates but the depth bar is explicitly moderate rather than expert-level.
CI/CD and LLMs (model selection, agent orchestration, guardrails) appear in the responsibilities/context narrative rather than the skills requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about BUILDING a software development platform (tooling, services, architecture) — pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers — but has a strong platform/infrastructure operations flavor (Kubernetes, CI/CD wiring, DevOps partnership) that could suggest 15-1244. The build-and-ship framing wins.
The posting references specific AI SDLC frameworks (GitHub Spec Kit, OpenSpec, BMAD-METHOD) as evaluation targets, not as required skills — no concrete tool is gated on, so none are emitted as skills.
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