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title: 'Platform Engineer at Perry Weather'
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last_seen: '2026-09-15'
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# Platform Engineer at Perry Weather

- **Company:** Perry Weather
- **Location:** Perry Weather Office
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/perryweather/e8d81344-c4eb-4339-99ae-38c477a4aeae

## Job description

## About Perry Weather

Perry Weather is the weather safety standard for organizations that operate outdoors. We combine on-site weather hardware with a software platform that automates alerts, siren activations, and safety decisions for more than 3,000 organizations — from the PGA of America, the NFL, and MLB to Turner Construction, thousands of school districts, cities, and golf courses. We've grown 80%+ annually for five consecutive years, and are continuing to grow.

We're headquartered in Dallas at The Centrum, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, where our teams work together every day to help organizations make faster and safer decisions when weather puts people, assets, and operations at risk.

## About the Role

We're looking for a Platform Engineer to help build and run the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on. You'll partner closely with our Lead Platform Engineer, designing and delivering the work together, and own real surface area from the start: infrastructure as code, our Kubernetes environments, delivery pipelines, observability, and the guardrails that keep all of it safe to change.

Engineering is your customer. Success in this role looks like fast service setup, uneventful deploys, and engineers who can diagnose a failing workload without asking for help.

Engineering here also works with AI coding agents daily, which adds to the platform team's job: checks that catch generated infrastructure errors before they apply, scoped credentials and audit trails for automated actors, and cost reporting that accounts for agent usage. You'll use agents in your own work and help build these controls for everyone else.

## Responsibilities

- Infrastructure as code. Write and maintain the Terraform that defines our cloud footprint, review changes for blast radius, and keep our modules usable by engineers outside the platform team.
- Kubernetes and workloads. Run our clusters and the Helm-deployed services on them, including resource tuning, scaling behavior, and the failure modes that only show up under load.
- Delivery pipelines. Build and maintain CI/CD in GitHub Actions so that builds, tests, and deploys are fast and dependable enough that engineers rely on them.
- Observability and reliability. Improve the instrumentation, dashboards, and alerting that tell us how the platform is behaving, and make alerts specific enough that people act on them.
- Cost and capacity. Track where our cloud spend goes, find the waste, and add controls that catch expensive changes before they ship.
- Guardrails. Secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency and image scanning, and policy checks that catch mistakes during review.
- AI and automated actors. Coding agents and automation are regular consumers of our platform. You'll give them scoped identities and audit trails, add the checks that catch generated infrastructure mistakes before they apply, and track what their usage costs alongside the rest of our spend.
- On-call and incident support. Share the on-call rotation, respond when the platform degrades, and make the changes that prevent a repeat.

## Requirements

- 4+ years in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or backend engineering, with real ownership of production infrastructure
- You're fluent in infrastructure as code. Terraform experience is ideal, but if you've come from another IaC tool, the fundamentals carry over. You've written and maintained IaC in production and know how to keep what's declared in code in sync with what's actually running
- Working depth in a major cloud, including managed databases, networking, identity, and secrets. We're primarily on Azure, but AWS or GCP experience transfers

## Nice to Have

- Kubernetes in production. You can take a failing workload, trace it through configuration, networking, and resource limits, and explain what went wrong to the engineer who owns the service
- CI/CD you've built and debugged, ideally GitHub Actions. You've fixed a pipeline engineers had stopped trusting, and you can separate a failing test from failing infrastructure
- Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash good enough to automate a manual process end to end and leave it maintainable for someone else
- Observability work you've done yourself: instrumentation you added, a dashboard other people used, and an alert you tuned because it fired too often
- On-call experience for production systems, including at least one incident you drove to resolution and wrote up afterward
- Product instincts about internal tooling. You've built something for other engineers, watched them use it, and changed it based on what you saw
- Fluency with AI-native engineering tools and agentic workflows (e.g., terminal-native coding agents, LLM-assisted code refactoring and generation) to multiply technical output and speed up development cycles
- Least-privilege credential design for automated systems: CI service accounts, scoped tokens, short-lived credentials, and audit trails. Agents are the newest consumers of that work, and the principles carry over

Note: We're looking for someone with broad exposure who not only is comfortable going deep when needed but actually wants to. You don't need to be an expert in every requirement above. If you're strong in a few areas and excited to learn the rest, we'd love to hear from you. Don't let the nice-to-haves stop you from applying!

## Benefits

- You'll want to come into the office. Our Oak Lawn office isn't just a place to sit — it's where ideas move fast and culture stays strong. The whole team is here Monday through Friday, which means real collaboration, no chasing people down over Slack, and a genuinely fun place to spend your work days.
- Your wellbeing is covered. Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with employer matching, and a full suite of voluntary benefits, because you shouldn't have to think twice about the basics.
- Good people, good times. Monthly All-Hands, Office Olympics, happy hours, and more. We take the work seriously and the culture seriously too.
- You're getting in early, and that matters. We're growing fast, but the biggest opportunities are still ahead. The people joining now will help shape what Perry Weather becomes.

## About Perry Weather

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Perry Weather provides a weather safety platform that combines on‑site hardware and cloud‑based software to deliver real‑time monitoring and automated alerts for lightning, heat, wind, and other hazardous conditions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Colin Perry

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Weather technology, safety software, IoT hardware
- **Target customers**: B2B – K‑12 / collegiate athletics, golf courses, parks & recreation departments, construction firms, energy companies, and airports.
- **Mission or purpose**: Simplify weather safety, protect lives, enforce safety policies, and minimize operational disruption.

## Products & Services
- **Weather Monitoring & Alerting System**: On‑site weather stations that measure lightning, WBGT (heat stress), wind, precipitation, and air quality; data updates every five minutes in a dashboard and mobile app. Automated alerts (SMS, push, outdoor sirens) are triggered by custom safety policies, with automatic all‑clears and lightning countdown timers.
- **Policy‑Based Alerting**: Clients define rules for lightning, heat, wind, etc. Percy Weather enforces consistent notifications across the entire team, eliminating confusion.
- **Historical Data & Reporting**: Site‑specific logs of weather delays and alerts support compliance verification, claims management, and operational planning.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: USD $21.25 million (Series A of $6.25M in Oct 2022, Series B of $15M in Oct 2024, both led by Arthur Ventures)
- **Key Metric**: Trusted by over 5,000 organizations; more than 200 million alerts sent.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Arthur Ventures (lead investor); Official Weather Platform of The PGA of America; Korey Stringer Institute (Perry Weather Heat Lab).
- **Growth Signals**: Employee headcount of 88 (+24.7% year‑over‑year); actively expanding into construction, energy, and airport markets; 7 open positions listed on LinkedIn (as of mid‑2026). Named a Dallas Business Journal “Best Places to Work.”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Integrated hardware + software**: On‑site stations provide hyperlocal data (not a distant weather station), tied directly to a single source of truth for automated alerts and compliance reporting.
- **Policy automation**: Clients can codify state athletic guidelines or company safety rules and have them enforced automatically, reducing manual decision‑making.
- **Scale of adoption**: Thousands of organizations across diverse verticals, from small school districts to Fortune‑500 firms, provide network effects and trust.
- **Partnerships**: Official status with the PGA of America lends brand credibility in the golf and events space.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding into new verticals (construction, energy, airports) and deepening existing ones (athletics, golf, parks & rec).
- Build the next generation of weather safety tools, leveraging modern software and resilient IoT hardware.
- Increase automation and integrations (e.g., golf cart systems, member apps) to further reduce friction for customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful impact**: Employees protect thousands of lives daily from hazardous weather.
- **Culture**: Casual, flexible, collaborative environment with no big egos. Core values: Adaptable, Humbly Confident, Grinder, Clever Thinkers. Monthly all‑hands, office Olympics, movie outings, lunch‑and‑learns, happy hours.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with match, generous PTO, and voluntary benefits.
- **Work environment**: Office‑based in Dallas’s Oak Lawn neighborhood, with flexibility. Small but growing team (88 employees) offering high ownership and challenging technical problems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapidly growing company with accelerating revenue, providing career advancement opportunities.

## Sources
1. [perryweather.com – About Us](https://perryweather.com/about-us/)
2. [perryweather.com – Homepage](https://perryweather.com/)
3. [perryweather.com – Jobs page](https://perryweather.com/jobs/)
4. [LinkedIn – Perry Weather company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/perry-weather)

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