Data Platform Engineer, Infrastructure
FieldAI · Irvine, CA
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Jul 10, 2026
Irvine, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role focuses on building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure underpinning a robotics data platform — covering Kubernetes-based compute, object storage, data warehousing, networking, and CI/CD pipelines managed through infrastructure-as-code. The engineer will own reliability, security, observability, and cost management for systems that ingest and process continuous telemetry from globally deployed robots, while also creating internal tooling to support pipeline and analytics teams.
Mid level · 3+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 350 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 260–450
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 $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 (9)
The role title is 'Data Platform Engineer, Infrastructure' with no seniority level in the title, hence advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3–5+ years requirement and scope (owning cloud infrastructure for a growing platform) support a Mid-level classification, though the upper end of the range and breadth of ownership could push toward Senior.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure code (Terraform/IaC, Python/Go tooling, GitOps, CI/CD) which points to 15-1252 Software Developers, but it also has a strong operational/SRE flavor (on-call, incident response, SLAs/SLOs, capacity planning) that overlaps with 15-1244. The code-building emphasis was the deciding factor.
AWS and GCP are listed as alternatives ('AWS or GCP') — one major cloud is required, not both.
Terraform is listed with 'or similar'; alternatives populated with common IaC substitutes.
Python and Go are listed as alternatives ('Python, Go, or similar') — one is required.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree' with no equivalent-experience escape clause, so Bachelor's is treated as the minimum hard requirement.
Spark/Databricks, GPU scheduling, and IoT/edge fleet experience all appear under the 'The Extras That Set You Apart' section and are preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is fully onsite in Irvine, CA (within the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim CBSA).
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