> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # Staff Platform Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/63b9ca33c41caa45 Ciridae posts a staff FDE role to build for teams inside the company in San Francisco, CA and 1 more with no pay posted. Own the architecture and evolution of Crucible, Ciridae’s platform for building and deploying customer applications, and co-own its technical roadmap with senior engineers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Ciridae](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) Posted Sep 1, 2026 by Ciridae · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA +1 On-site Full-time Own the architecture and evolution of Crucible, Ciridae’s platform for building and deploying customer applications, and co-own its technical roadmap with senior engineers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F63b9ca33c41caa45&placement=top) - [View posting at Ciridae](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciridae/bea8c5d0-4390-4d27-924e-8dc59fbf9042/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **8+ years** professional software engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 8+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA · New York, NY. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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You will co-own its technical roadmap alongside Ciridae’s other senior engineers and build the deployment systems, developer tooling, services, and abstractions that power customer applications. Success means expanding Crucible’s capabilities so FDEs can build more and deploy faster. You will also help solve the hardest deployment-specific problems. What begins as a solution for one customer should become an extensible capability, reusable service, or platform pattern that makes future deployments faster and better. Your ownership continues into production: instrumenting the platform, debugging live issues, improving reliability and security, and eliminating recurring operational problems at the root. You will provide technical leadership through architecture, system design, code review, documentation, and the engineering standards you establish. **What you bring:** A strong software engineering foundation and experience building production platforms, deployment systems, and developer tooling that engineers rely on. You understand how to design extensible systems that work across varied cloud and customer-hosted environments without creating one-off architecture for every project. You are comfortable working across Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, and production reliability. You have a track record of improving developer productivity, deployment speed, platform adoption, and operational reliability. You can move between long-term platform architecture and an urgent technical problem blocking a customer deployment. You remain deeply involved in implementation, bringing a clear technical point of view grounded in experience and a high bar for code quality. ### Requirements - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform infrastructure, deployment systems, or developer tooling. - Staff-level impact through technical direction, cross-team influence, and delivery of complex systems from design through production. - Strong programming skills in Go, Python, TypeScript, or a similar language, with experience designing and operating distributed, multi-tenant, or cloud-native systems. - Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; Kubernetes, Terraform, containers, and CI/CD; and multi-cloud or customer-hosted deployments. - Strong grounding in APIs, service boundaries, data stores, networking, identity and access management, secrets management, secure software delivery, and production observability. - A track record of improving developer experience, deployment speed, platform adoption, or reliability; diagnosing live issues; and fixing recurring problems at the root. - Strong system-design, technical-writing, and communication skills, with the ability to influence across teams and work hands-on from our San Francisco or New York office. [View posting at Ciridae](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciridae/bea8c5d0-4390-4d27-924e-8dc59fbf9042/application) ## About Ciridae Ciridae builds and operates custom AI operating systems that connect business records, workflows, and agents for mid-market companies. 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