Senior Platform Engineer – Infrastructure at Recruiting From Scratch
San Francisco, NY
$165,000–$255,000from the description
Aug 17, 2026
San Francisco, NY
Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A venture-backed AI company serving the insurance industry is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to build and own the cloud infrastructure and internal tooling that underpins a production AI platform. The role centers on writing infrastructure-as-code, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating operational workflows, and improving observability and incident response. It suits an experienced engineer comfortable taking end-to-end ownership of platform projects in a fast-moving, distributed environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,900–15,400
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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Administrators (15-1244) because the JD explicitly emphasizes writing code (Python as the primary language), building CI/CD pipelines, and owning infrastructure-as-code projects end-to-end — this is a role that ships software, not one that primarily operates existing systems.
Python is listed in the required 'Ideal Background' section but with a softening note that engineers from other object-oriented backgrounds 'may be considered'; it is still treated as a hard gate given its placement in the requirements block and the explicit statement that it is the primary language.
PostgreSQL is listed in the requirements section with 'ideally' as a qualifier, indicating a preference for that specific database; it is treated as a hard gate on relational database experience, with PostgreSQL as the named tool.
Docker is listed with 'or comparable container technologies' — no specific alternative is named, so common substitutes (Podman, containerd) would apply, but the JD names only Docker.
The NYC location appears in the posting header alongside 'Remote – United States'; the role is fully remote US-wide, with NYC likely reflecting the company's headquarters or the recruiter's market.
LLMs, distributed systems, and observability are listed under the 'Preferred' section and are treated accordingly.
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