Staff Platform and Application Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
$191,100 - $258,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Staff Platform and Application Engineer within the Engineering Platform Services function, you will own technical deliveries from requirements through planning, implementation, and delivery to support Arm's engineering population. The role focuses on delivering tooling, core services, and automation for both hardware and software engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Enable software build and test through CI/CD, build frameworks, and large scale artifact distributed systems. - Develop and maintain core services using cloud-based environments and large-scale clustered compute. - Utilize virtualization and cloud technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. - Support AI Platform adoption across developer tooling, MCPs, and LLMs. - Provide operational support and technical guidance to the engineering community across minor improvements and multi-month strategic projects.
What you'll need
- Experience in Linux-based infrastructure design, provisioning, and maintenance. - Knowledge of cloud services with experience in at least one platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. - Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet. - Experience with SDLC tools including Jenkins, Artifactory, and GitLab. - Practical knowledge of containerisation technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and ArgoCD. - Proficiency in interpreted languages (such as Bash, Python, or Ruby) and compiled languages (such as Golang, Rust, C, C++, or Java). - Experience with AI tooling, including MCP and agents.
Nice to have
- Experience working in a Platform Engineering environment focused on developer experience, productivity, and self-service infrastructure automation. - Understanding of the software development lifecycle. - An active interest in open-source software. - Experience with microservice software development.
Skills: Linux, Cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, AI Platform, CI/CD
This role has been open 103 days — well above the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 16 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 83 | 6222 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 96 d | 50 d (+46 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux, Cloud services, Kubernetes, Terraform, AI Platform, CI/CD
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.