Platform Engineer at Xsolla
Baku
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Jul 21, 2026
Baku
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-to-senior infrastructure role focused on managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters — both self-hosted and cloud-based — alongside Linux, web, and application servers. Day-to-day work covers cloud infrastructure provisioning via tools like Terraform, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and observability. Suited to engineers with a solid background in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering within cloud environments such as GCP or AWS.
Mid level · 4+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 720 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 540–930
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).
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 sits between 15-1252 (Software Developers) and 15-1244 (Network/Systems Admins): it writes IaC and scripts (pointing to 15-1252) but also heavily administers Linux servers and Kubernetes clusters (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the JD emphasizes building and managing infrastructure-as-code and automation, which is the dominant modern SRE/Platform engineering pattern.
GCP and AWS appear together in the requirements section as alternatives ('GCP or AWS'); GCP is listed as the primary with AWS as the alternative.
Python and Bash are listed together as a scripting requirement; both are captured as required skills with each as the other's alternative, since the JD uses a slash ('Python / Bash') implying either satisfies the requirement.
Terraform/Terragrunt and Puppet/Ansible appear in the Responsibilities section (not a formal 'Required' block), so they are marked as preferred. The Responsibilities section describes day-to-day work but does not carry the same hard-gate language as the Qualifications block.
Observability tools are mentioned in the Qualifications section but no specific tool is named, so no concrete skill was emitted.
The 4–7 year range maps to a Mid-level band; the upper end (7 years) could suggest Senior, but the lower bound (4 years) and absence of explicit senior-level scope language led to the more conservative Mid classification.
No compensation figures are stated in the posting.
Location is inferred as Los Angeles (Xsolla HQ); the posting does not explicitly state a work location or remote policy.
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