Principal Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage essential AWS cloud infrastructure, encompassing compute, networking, IAM, and container orchestration.

• Take ownership of organization-wide CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, environment promotion, progressive rollout, and rollback processes.

• Develop and sustain logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs.

• Promote infrastructure as code methodologies and oversee Kubernetes clusters, custom controllers, and operators.

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams regarding secrets, network policies, and access controls.

• Create self-service developer tools and platform APIs for product and AI engineering teams.

• Manage incident response tools, on-call practices, and standards for reliability engineering.

• Lead or assist in significant platform incident responses.

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and finance on cost visibility, capacity planning, and optimization efforts.

• Produce documentation, runbooks, and maintain clear platform interfaces.

• Engage in code reviews and advocate for engineering best practices.

• Work during regular business hours in the Eastern US time zone.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a similar coding-focused technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience.

• Over 8 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.

• Proven experience at the Staff, Principal, or Architect level demonstrated through platform architecture or ownership of critical production systems.

• Extensive hands-on experience with CI/CD, including artifact management, environment promotion, and progressive rollout.

• Strong expertise in AWS, particularly in IAM, networking, and container orchestration.

• Experience in production environments using Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with GitHub and GitHub Actions.

• A successful history of building internal developer platforms or tools that have been embraced by engineering teams.

• Proficiency in coding with Python, Go, or TypeScript.

• Capability to operate within a polyglot environment using Python, .NET, and TypeScript.

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

• Knowledge of modern observability tools, including Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.

• Ability to lead discussions regarding infrastructure costs and reliability with engineering leadership and finance.

• Strong written communication and documentation abilities.

• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Generous paid time off policy including holidays and vacation days.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.