Staff Software Engineer, Peregrine
Platform
$240-300k
+ Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
4 days a week in office
Data integration platform for public safety agencies
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Data integration platform for public safety agencies
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-300k
+ Equity (if applicable) + Bonus (if applicable)
4 days a week in office
501-1000 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
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
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. Funding has raised its valuation to $6.8 billion, and it's channelling resources to accelerate the company's growth, having doubled its customer base between 2025 and 20226.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2026
$250m
SERIES D
Mar 2025
$190m
SERIES C
Total funding: $500.1m
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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