Join Peregrine as a Staff Software Engineer to design and build networking capabilities for secure and scalable communication.
Posted by employer 2 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 18 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
40% coding
Requirements
- Experience
- 9+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Staff Software Engineer, Networking at Peregrine, the individual will focus on designing and implementing software-defined networking solutions that ensure secure and scalable communication. Key skills include strong programming abilities in languages like Python or Go, alongside a deep understanding of networking fundamentals and cloud environments, particularly Kubernetes. This position is ideal for seasoned professionals with over nine years of experience in software or network engineering, who are adept at driving architectural decisions and collaborating across teams. Peregrine's commitment to public safety and operational intelligence underscores the significance of this
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Peregrine's careers page October 31, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 2 other locations at Peregrine: New York, NY, Washington DC.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
- Starts above 23% of 83 comparable staff backend roles in United States that list Python we track (median $217,000 across 34 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 34.1% of 311 comparable staff backend roles in United States; NAT appears in 0.6% of 311 comparable staff backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Software Engineer, Traffic role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the salary range?
- Peregrine lists $200,000–$275,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 9 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, Traffic role.
- Where is the role based?
- Peregrine is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: DNS, Go, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, NAT, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Peregrine targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, Traffic role at Peregrine.
From the original posting
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.
Role
We are looking to add a Staff Software Engineer, Traffic to expand our high-impact Platform team. You’ll design and build software-defined networking capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable communication across Peregrine.
You’ll work across cloud and Kubernetes networking, service-to-service communication, traffic management, routing, and observability—building the control planes, services, and automation that make complex networking capabilities reliable and easy to operate at scale.
About you
- Design and build systems that provision, manage, and scale network connectivity across customer, cloud, and Kubernetes environments
- Build platform capabilities for service communication, routing, traffic management, segmentation, and observability
- Extend and improve APIs and services that make networking capabilities reliable and self-service
- Design systems for safe configuration, policy enforcement, traffic rollout, and failure recovery
- Own and improve the reliability, scalability, and observability of networking and traffic management systems
- Lead debugging of complex connectivity and traffic issues across application, Kubernetes, cloud, and network boundaries
- Drive architectural direction and networking standards while collaborating across Infrastructure, Security, and product engineering team
What we’re looking for
- 9+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or network engineering roles, with a focus on building and operating systems at scale
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Go, or similar) with experience building production systems or services
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancing, NAT, VPNs)
- Experience with cloud and Kubernetes networking, including concepts such as VPCs, routing, network policy, and service connectivity (service mesh and CNI experience, such as Istio or Cilium is a big plus)
- Experience building or operating distributed systems or networking infrastructure (e.g., control planes, traffic management, gateways or proxies, automation systems)
- Strong debugging skills and ability to troubleshoot across application, system, and network boundaries
- Ability to drive technical direction and make architectural decisions across teams
- Based in and around one of our offices in SF or NYC and excited to work in-office.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
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