Staff Software Engineer, Cloudops
Palo Alto Networks
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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$207,914 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $186k versus about $179k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing
Salesforce currently has 106 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $148,500–$260,100 across 98 roles with salary data.
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Platform Engineer — Cloud Infrastructure (SMTS) is a member of the Platform Engineering team within the Cloud Infrastructure organization. This role focuses on building next-generation, self-healing platform tools by integrating AI, LLMs, and autonomous agents into multi-cloud services to improve reliability and developer experience. You will develop core platform services using Go and Python, design multi-agent workflows for complex operational tasks, and build Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems over internal documentation. Key responsibilities include creating AIOps systems for anomaly detection, developing custom CLI plugins, and maintaining GitOps pipelines using Flux, Argo CD, Pulumi, and Terraform. The role addresses the challenge of reducing operational toil across Kubernetes clusters on AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. You will leverage your expertise in vector databases, prompt engineering, and cloud-native infrastructure to automate production systems and mentor others on AI-driven platform concepts.
What does a Platform Engineer earn?
Median $150000 from 32 postings across 22 companies.
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