Senior / Lead / Principal Platform Engineer (DevOps / Cloud Infrastructure)
CB Smart Recruit · Los Angeles, CA
$200,000–$300,000
Jun 30, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A platform engineering role at an early-stage AI company building infrastructure for data-fusion and decision-making systems. The position centers on owning Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and GPU-accelerated ML workloads, while also developing internal developer tooling and self-service automation. Suited to engineers with a strong software foundation and hands-on production infrastructure ownership experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $200,000–$300,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 300 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 230–390
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). 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 title advertises 'Senior, Lead, or Principal' — a wide band. The required experience floor is 5+ years with no org-wide scope language, so Senior is the best single-band fit; the posting's own framing acknowledges the level is negotiable based on experience.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role is squarely about building and shipping platform software (IaC, internal developer platforms, automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines) which maps to Software Developers (15-1252), but the heavy operational/SRE framing (incident response, day-to-day Kubernetes ops) makes 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
GCP is listed as the primary cloud with AWS as an explicit alternative ('GCP and/or AWS') — both are named in the same requirement, so AWS is captured as an alternative rather than a separate skill.
Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK) are listed as 'such as … or equivalent' under required qualifications; Prometheus is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since they are interchangeable for this requirement.
The compensation range is stated as '$200,000–$300,000+'; the '+' indicates the ceiling may exceed $300,000 for exceptional candidates, but $300,000 is used as the stated max.
A Master's degree is listed as preferred, not required; the hard gate is a Bachelor's degree.
Visa sponsorship is explicitly unavailable — relevant context for sourcing.
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