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Salary: USD 200,000 - 275,000 / annual
Peregrine Technologies is an AI-enabled platform company backed by leading Silicon Valley investors that helps public safety organizations, state and local governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address societal challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The platform transforms siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence, surfacing mission-critical information to enable faster, better decisions. Peregrine currently supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people.
We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our core engineering teams and drive impactful projects while fostering an inclusive team culture and leading technical decision-making. This role balances people management with hands-on technical leadership. You will develop a high-performing team, guide them through complex technical challenges, and ensure their work aligns with business priorities. The ideal candidate excels at mentorship while maintaining high standards in technical execution.
You will own large portions of the application from start to finish, working cross-functionally with design and product management to build robust, scalable, and user-centered systems. Our teams tackle challenges ranging from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points. You'll collaborate directly with deployment teams and users to iterate and solve their problems, delivering value that aids emergency responders and addresses complex organizational challenges.
Our tech stack includes a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka; a frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch; machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as underlying infrastructure.
Required qualifications: 8+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams; degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent); proven track record shipping and iterating on production-grade software components; ability to write robust, well-tested, well-designed code deployed to users; solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems; strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases; located in San Francisco, CA and open to working in office.
