{"id":4009378,"url":"https://alion.io/job/iren-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering","title":"Staff Software Engineer, Platform Engineering","company":{"id":47565,"name":"IREN","domain":"iren.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/iren","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"HiBob","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Seattle, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":184000,"max":276000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":276000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":true},{"name":"Time Series","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T21:56:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-10T09:08:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":48,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":48},"description":"IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC. With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way: responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.\nPlatform Engineering builds what the rest of IREN builds on. We own data engineering, automation, developer tooling, AI enablement, and product engineering, the systems that turn a fleet of data centers and GPU clusters into a platform our customers and our own teams can move quickly on. Much of it is being built now, for the first time, so there is no legacy stack to maintain and no established playbook to follow.\nThis is one of the most senior technical roles at IREN, and it is an individual contributor role. A staff engineer is not a manager without reports. The scope is the organisation rather than a single team. The problems you take on are the ones that cross several teams, that no one team can solve alone, and that will still matter in three years.\nWe expect you to think in years rather than sprints. Part of the job is holding a view of where the platform needs to be well beyond the current roadmap, making the case for it, and then sequencing the work so teams can move toward it while still shipping. You will write the design documents other teams build against, and you will be measured on whether they turned out to be right.\nThe clearest way a staff engineer creates value here is through other engineers, so we are looking for someone who coaches at the scale of the organisation rather than the team they sit with. That means design and architecture review across teams, pairing on the problems people are stuck on, writing the things that teach, and delivering large pieces of work by growing the engineers who build them rather than building it all yourself.\nWe expect deep expertise in at least one domain, and we expect you to see past organisational boundaries: to notice when two teams are solving the same problem twice, when the right fix sits outside your area, and when the honest answer is that something should not be built at all. We look for a customer centric view throughout. In Platform Engineering the customer is usually another team at IREN, and the test of a design is whether it makes their work easier, not whether it is elegant. \nResponsibilities\nOwn the technical direction of an area spanning several teams, on a horizon measured in years rather than quarters.\nRaise the level of engineers across the organisation: design and architecture review beyond your own team, pairing on hard problems, and writing that teaches.\nDeliver large pieces of work by growing the engineers who build them, rather than building everything yourself.\nTake on the problems that cross team boundaries and that no single team owns, including the ones nobody has escalated yet.\nWrite the design documents and technical standards other teams build against.\nBe the company's depth in your domain, and make that depth available rather than holding it.\nPrototype to settle open questions, so decisions rest on evidence rather than on argument.\nStay hands on. Write and review code, debug production problems, and carry the pager for what you own.\nFind where the organisation is slow, and fix the technical causes of it.\nWork with engineering managers and product on planning and sequencing, including what the organisation should stop doing.\nRequirements\n10 or more years of professional software engineering experience, several of them at senior level or beyond.\nDeep expertise in at least one domain, for example distributed systems, databases and storage, networking, data engineering, or applied AI systems, at the level where you are the person others come to.\nA record of technical influence beyond your own team, where the outcome depended on people you did not manage.\nCoaching at scale. Be ready to name engineers who grew because of you, and to describe what changed in how they work.\nEvidence of multi-year technical judgement: a direction you set, why you set it, and how it held up afterwards.\nExcellent written communication. Your design documents persuade people who were not in the room, and remain useful a year later.\nExperience owning systems in production, including operations, on-call, and incident response.\nA customer centric approach, and the discipline to check that a design makes someone's work easier rather than assuming it does.\nComfort with ambiguity, including the judgement to say that something should not be built.\nNice to have:Experience at a company scaling quickly, where the architecture had to change as it grew.\nExperience with high volume data pipelines, streaming systems, or telemetry and time series data.\nExperience putting machine learning or LLM systems into production.\nExperience working close to physical infrastructure, where the software must account for hardware that fails.\nOpen source contributions, published work, or talks in your domain.\nBenefits\nAt IREN, we offer a highly competitive compensation package that includes base salary, annual performance incentives, and opportunities to build long-term wealth through equity programs. These offerings are part of our broader Total Rewards package, thoughtfully designed to support your health, well-being, and long-term success. Compensation\nThe expected base salary for this role USD $184,000 - $276,000/annum.Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, qualifications, and market data for the region.\n\nTotal Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus, equity (long-term incentive).\nRelocation or Living-out-allowance / per diem (as appliable and based on successful candidate circumstances)\nHealth & Wellness100% company paid health insurance premiums (medical, dental, and vision) for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents\nCompany-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance\nVoluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available\nHealth Savings Accounts (HSA) - when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan\nEmployee Assistance Program and wellness resources\nRetirement & Financial Wealth401(k) retirement plan with company match\nAccess to financial planning and legal services\nTime Off & Leave ProgramsPaid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays \nGrowth & DevelopmentInternal skills training and advancement pathways\nProfessional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training \nCommunity & CultureCompany events and team-building activities \nWe value diverse perspectives and believe that skills can be developed. If you’re passionate about this role, we want to hear from you - whether you meet every criteria or not. Your unique experiences might be exactly what we need!IE US Operations Inc., the employing entity and proud member of the IREN group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We are committed to evaluating qualified applicants and do not discriminate against protected characteristics under applicable legislation.\nIE US Operations, Inc. “IREN” participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States.\nBy applying for this position and submitting your resume and application materials, you consent to the processing of your personal information in accordance with our Job Applicant Privacy Statement available on our website at www.iren.com.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7938,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events","Equity","Health insurance","Professional development","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Data Centers & Colocation","Mining & Staking"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T09:08:38Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":36,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.828,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":48,"expected_fill_days":46,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T09:54:57Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":276000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/iren-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/iren-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T09:54:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":23007,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":47565},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=47565"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Firen-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Firen-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Firen-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/iren-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Firen-staff-software-engineer-platform-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4009378}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"iren.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4009378},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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