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# Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Peregrine Technologies

- **Company:** Peregrine Technologies
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/peregrinetechnologies/jobs/4721013005

## Job description

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into the enterprise and internationally.

## Our Team

The Platform team owns the foundation that every product team at Peregrine builds on. Our job is to make Peregrine's infrastructure fast, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient, while making it easy for other engineers to ship safely and quickly on top of it. We work closely with our traffic engineering team to keep routing, load balancing, and capacity running smoothly as we scale.

We believe great infrastructure is invisible when it's working and clearly communicated when it isn't. We hold ourselves to a high bar on reliability and security, and we treat other engineering teams as our customers, investing in tooling, documentation, and self-service paths that reduce their toil.

## Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our growing Platform team and lead the technical strategy for scaling Peregrine's cloud footprint. You'll drive initiatives that improve performance and reliability, reduce infrastructure cost, strengthen our security posture, and make the platform more developer-friendly, often all at once. We're open to leveling this role up to Principal based on your experience and scope of impact.

This role blends hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional influence. You'll partner with product engineering teams to understand where infrastructure is a bottleneck, and set technical direction that the rest of the team executes against. As the platform scales, you'll also provide technical guidance to our traffic engineering team. You'll also mentor engineers, review designs, and help build a culture of ownership and operational excellence.

Representative problems you'll work on include: making it possible to stand up new regions and customer environments with minimal manual work as Peregrine's footprint grows; building autoscaling and right-sizing systems that cut cloud spend without sacrificing headroom; strengthening reliability and incident response for mission-critical services so outages are rare and fast to resolve; hardening network and platform security controls to meet the compliance bar our public-sector customers require; building paved-road tooling that lets product teams deploy, observe, and debug their services without needing deep infra expertise; and, as our traffic and capacity needs grow, partnering with our traffic engineering team to help shape technical direction for routing and load balancing at scale.

## About You

- Desire and drive to own large, ambiguous infrastructure problems from design through operation
- Passion for building platforms that make other engineers faster and more confident
- Deep interest in the tradeoffs between performance, reliability, cost, and security, and comfort making explicit decisions among them
- Thrive on ambiguity and enjoy diagnosing hard, high-stakes production problems
- Excellent technical vision, with the ability to turn broad infrastructure goals into a concrete, sequenced roadmap

## What We Look For

- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale, with direct ownership of platform, networking, or traffic systems
- Hands-on experience with major public cloud platforms, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Working knowledge of traffic engineering concepts (load balancing, service mesh, autoscaling, CDN/edge routing, capacity planning) to collaborate effectively with our traffic engineering team
- Track record of driving down cloud costs through architecture and tooling, without compromising reliability
- Solid grounding in cloud and network security best practices, and experience working within compliance-driven environments
- Strong instincts for developer experience: building tools, guardrails, and documentation that make the platform easy and safe to use
- Comfort operating and improving systems under real production load, including on-call ownership and incident response
- Located in San Francisco, CA and open to working in the office

Salary Range: $240,000 - $300,000 Annually + Benefits + Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, certifications or licenses, and specific work location. Information on the benefits offered is [here](https://peregrine.io/careers/).

Peregrine Technologies is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and are a proud equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

## About Peregrine Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Peregrine Technologies provides a full-stack AI platform that unifies fragmented data from disparate systems into a single, permission-aware operational intelligence layer for high-stakes government and enterprise organizations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $6.8B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Nick Noone (CEO) and Ben Rudolph (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Public Safety, Government Technology (GovTech), Enterprise Data & AI Software
- **Target customers**: B2G (state and local government, federal agencies, public safety), B2B (financial services, travel, enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To help the world’s most critical organizations solve their hardest problems — the ones that shape the safety, stability, and strength of entire communities [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).

## Products & Services
- **Peregrine Platform (Full-Stack AI)**: A SaaS platform that ingests, enriches, and connects data from siloed legacy systems into a unified operational view. It includes:
  - **Data Governance**: Granular, role-based access controls and full auditability to ensure privacy and civil liberties protections.
  - **Semantic Ontology**: Understands an organization’s unique terminology, data relationships, and rules.
  - **AI & Intuitive Interfaces**: Surfaces actionable intelligence to both leadership and frontline operators via natural language queries and dashboards.
  - **Forward Deployed Engineering**: Peregrine deploys engineers directly with customer teams to understand workflows and tailor the platform on-site.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $6.8 billion (as of Series D, June 22, 2026) [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/resources/peregrine-technologies-raises-250-million-series-d-at-68-billion-valuation)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $250 million in its latest Series D round. Estimated annual revenue of $25M–$50M [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/peregrine-technologies).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Fifth Down Capital, Sequoia Capital, OG Venture Partners, Goldcrest Capital, XYZ Ventures, Godfrey Capital [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/resources/peregrine-technologies-raises-250-million-series-d-at-68-billion-valuation)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Doubled customer base in the past year, now supporting 400+ agencies across North America serving 125M+ people.
  - Expanded to federal, enterprise, and international markets with offices in Toronto and London.
  - Headcount grew 106.7% YoY to 298 employees [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/peregrine-technologies).
  - Used for high-profile events: Super Bowl, Grammys, World Series, Kentucky Derby, Academy Awards, and eight of eleven World Cup host cities in 2026.
  - In Fairfax County, VA, helped identify a child abduction suspect in 13 minutes.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep vertical integration**: The platform is not a generic AI tool; it is purpose-built for high-stakes, mission-critical operations with built-in privacy, security, and governance from day one.
- **Forward Deployed Engineering model**: Engineers embed directly with customers to tailor the platform to their specific workflows, creating deep switching costs and high customer stickiness.
- **Trust and compliance focus**: Designed for transparency and security, giving customers full ownership and control over their data with role-based access and clear AI oversight.
- **Proven real-world impact**: Track record of quantifiable outcomes (e.g., crime reduction, faster emergency response) builds credibility and a strong reference base.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Development**: Continued investment in AI capabilities and platform depth.
- **Market Expansion**: Scaling from state/local government into federal agencies, enterprise sectors (financial services, travel), and international markets (Canada, UK).
- **Team Growth**: Expanding engineering and implementation teams to support rapid customer acquisition and deployment.
- **Liquidity for employees**: The Series D included a liquidity opportunity for employees, signaling a mature approach to talent retention.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: Employees directly contribute to public safety and community well-being. The company emphasizes that the impact is "visible, tangible, and often life-changing" [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).
- **High autonomy and ownership**: The company seeks "entrepreneurial thinkers" and promises extreme agency and cross-functional collaboration, allowing employees to shape the work and company [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).
- **Exceptional growth velocity**: Headcount doubled in the last year, and the company states that an employee’s career trajectory will match the company’s speed [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).
- **Culture**: Values include integrity, service, empathy, a beginner’s mindset, and diversity as an imperative for better decision-making [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office-based presence in San Francisco, Washington DC, New York City, Toronto, and London. Daily team lunches are provided to foster collaboration [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).
- **Key Benefits (US-based)**:
  - Health, dental, and vision insurance
  - Mental health support and services
  - 401k
  - Unlimited PTO
  - Commuting benefits
  - Paid parental leave
  - Life and disability insurance
  - Fertility and family planning support [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Hands-on experience, autonomy, educational resources, and cross-team collaboration are highlighted as key career accelerators [peregrine.io](https://peregrine.io/careers).

## Sources
1. [Peregrine.io - Homepage](https://peregrine.io/)
2. [Peregrine.io - Careers](https://peregrine.io/careers)
3. [Greenhouse - Jobs at Peregrine](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/peregrinetechnologies)
4. [LinkedIn - Peregrine Technologies](https://www.linkedin.com/company/peregrine-technologies)
5. [Peregrine.io - Series D Announcement](https://peregrine.io/resources/peregrine-technologies-raises-250-million-series-d-at-68-billion-valuation)

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