Staff Software Engineer, Peregrine
Data Infrastructure
$200-275k
+ Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
4 days a week in office
Data integration platform for public safety agencies
Open for applications
Data integration platform for public safety agencies
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-275k
+ Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help the world's most critical institutions make better decisions and improve operations by unlocking their data.
Role
Who you are
- This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who thrives on hard technical problems and brings the experience and judgment to shape foundational infrastructure decisions
- Deep passion for data infrastructure — you care about building systems that are correct, fast, and resilient at scale
- Thrive on ambiguity and are energized by defining the right solution to hard, open-ended problems
- Strong technical vision with the ability to translate complex data requirements into clean, durable infrastructure designs
- Desire to own significant portions of the data stack end-to-end, from ingestion to serving
- Committed to operational excellence — you build things you’re proud to operate
- 8+ years of experience architecting and operating large-scale data infrastructure systems in production environments
- Deep expertise with open table formats, particularly Apache Iceberg — including schema evolution, partitioning strategies, compaction, and time travel
- Extensive hands-on experience with Apache Spark for batch and streaming data processing at scale
- Strong background in real-time data integration and stream processing, leveraging technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or equivalents
- Solid experience with data pipeline orchestration using Airflow or similar tools
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and/or Scala, with a track record of writing production-quality code
- Extensive experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms, including S3-based data lake architectures
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployment of data workloads
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
What the job involves
- As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer
- Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves
- We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion
- We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision
- We are looking for a Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team, where you will have deep ownership over the data layer that underpins everything Peregrine does
- You will architect and build the systems that ingest, store, and serve massive volumes of real-time operational data — enabling our customers to make critical decisions with speed and confidence
- You will tackle a wide range of complex challenges, including:
- Designing and operating a high-throughput, real-time data integration platform across diverse customer environments
- Architecting a scalable open table format layer for reliable data storage at petabyte scale
- Building and optimizing distributed data processing pipelines with Apache Spark and adjacent streaming technologies
- Driving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across the full data infrastructure stack
- Collaborating with platform and product engineering teams to define data contracts, schemas, and integration patterns
- Establishing best practices, tooling, and patterns that raise the quality bar for data infrastructure across the organization
- Our stack is constantly evolving but is built on AWS GovCloud, Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, and more
Our take
The digitisation of emergency response organisations, data and incident reporting is speeding up, but this presents a problem if this information is not digestible. Emergency responders must be able to quickly translate and understand information as it comes in, or risk this faster flow of data being made redundant.
Peregrine is a data integration platform that improves emergency responses by making data more accessible, understandable and actionable. The platform can be used for public safety at different scales, such as building, city or region-wide. Its machine learning capabilities are also able to collate raw surveillance data, linking people, places and events to track targets or potential criminal activity.
With a founding team that boasts experience in both security and environmental risk analysis, Peregrine shows the potential to bridge the gap between tech and law enforcement. And funding is being channelled into accelerating the company's growth as it looks to double its employee headcount in the near future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2025
$190m
SERIES C
May 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $250.1m
Company benefits
- Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
- Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
- Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
- Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
- HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
- Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
- Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
- Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nick Noone
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Head of the US Special Operations Business Unit at Palantir Technologies. Was also Enterprise Software M&A at Seven Hills and Applied Statistics Consultant at Stanford Statistical Consulting.
Ben Rudolph
(Co-Founder)Previously an Engineer at Dimagi Inc, and a Technology Consultant at UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency).
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