Platform Architect – Cloud Scale, Reliability & Security

Peregrine Technologies; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team in San Francisco. You will lead the technical strategy for scaling Peregrine's cloud footprint, driving initiatives to improve performance, reliability, and security while reducing costs.

The role blends hands‑on leadership with cross‑functional influence and mentorship. You’ll collaborate with product engineering and traffic engineering to shape direction, stand up regional environments, and build tooling that

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or 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).
• Track record of driving down cloud costs through architecture and tooling, without compromising reliability.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy for scaling Peregrine's cloud footprint and drive initiatives that improve performance and reliability.
• Reduce infrastructure cost and strengthen security posture while making the platform more developer‑friendly.
• Provide technical guidance to product engineering and traffic engineering teams; mentor engineers and review designs.
• Stand up new regions and customer environments with minimal manual work as Peregrine expands.
• Build autoscaling and right‑sizing systems that cut cloud spend without sacrificing headroom.
• Strengthen reliability and incident response for mission‑critical services; harden network and platform security controls.

Job description

Peregrine Technologies is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform team in San Francisco. You will lead the technical strategy for scaling Peregrine's cloud footprint, driving initiatives to improve performance, reliability, and security while reducing costs.

The role blends hands‑on leadership with cross‑functional influence and mentorship. You’ll collaborate with product engineering and traffic engineering to shape direction, stand up regional environments, and build tooling that