Platform Engineer I at Blackhawk Network
Pleasanton, CA
$40.67/hrfrom the description
Jun 30, 2026
Pleasanton, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid engineering and operations role within a 24/7 command centre, split between responding to major production incidents and building the tooling that prevents them. Day-to-day work spans monitoring platform health, leading incident bridges, developing automation and observability dashboards, and engineering AI-assisted diagnostic and remediation capabilities. Suited to someone with a background in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering who wants hands-on exposure to large-scale distributed systems and cloud environments.
Mid level · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,100 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,300–4,000
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 $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). 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 (7)
The role is a genuine hybrid of Platform/SRE engineering (building automation, AI tooling, CI/CD improvements, dashboards) and production operations (24×7 on-call, Major Incident Management). The primary day-to-day work leans toward building and shipping tooling, which is why 15-1252 was chosen over 15-1244; however, the significant operational/NOC component makes this a medium-confidence call.
Pleasanton, CA is within the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara CBSA (41940). The role is hybrid (in-office Tuesdays and Wednesdays), not fully remote.
The compensation figures given are California-specific ($40.67/hr) and Illinois-specific ($32.09/hr) hourly rates. Only the California rate is captured in the comp fields as the primary location is Pleasanton, CA. The Illinois rate ($32.09/hr) cannot be represented in a single min/max pair.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's degree… or equivalent practical experience,' which means equivalent experience is accepted — treated as no hard degree gate.
AI tooling (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or similar) is listed under the Required section with firm language ('Experience using modern AI engineering tools such as…'), making it a hard gate on the capability; the named tools are captured as alternatives to each other.
All 'Nice to Have' items (Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ServiceNow, Terraform/CloudFormation, CI/CD) are listed under an explicit 'Nice to Have' heading and are marked preferred accordingly.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated in the JD; seniority was assessed as Mid based on the scope described (independent contribution on a team, foundational skills required, 'basic scripting' language) despite the breadth of the role.
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