Principal Platform Engineer – DevOps/Developer Experience

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Responsibilities

Lead the highest-priority initiatives: clarify approach, resolve ambiguity, and deliver high-quality results with pragmatic trade-offs.
Reduce cross-team friction by defining clear interfaces, breaking work into deliverable increments, and enabling parallel work through strong architectural boundaries.
Establish and model engineering best practices: design docs/RFCs, architecture reviews, code review discipline, and effective automated testing.
Promote API-first, “platform as a product” practices: consistent platform interfaces that reduce bespoke integrations and siloed solutions.
Create reusable platform capabilities (templates, modules, golden paths) that reduce reinvention and speed up delivery for teams.
Identify and implement automation (including agentic/AI-enabled workflows) that improves operational and delivery efficiency.
Lead cross-cutting improvements that enhance stability and reduce toil: observability standards, alert hygiene, incident learning loops, and resilience patterns.
Partner with operations and platform stakeholders to measurably improve reliability and reduce operational drag on delivery teams.
Coach senior and staff engineers by pairing on real work, running reviews, and teaching pragmatic system-level thinking.
Participate in the on-call rotation and contribute to service restoration, root-cause learning, and prevention.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
12+ years building, automating, and operating cloud-native platforms, infrastructure, and software delivery systems at scale.
Experience applying full SDLC practices (design, build, test, deploy, operate) to platform and infrastructure work, treating platform capabilities as production-grade software.
Experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives with measurable business and engineering outcomes.
8+ years designing and operating microservices-based systems, including API design and versioning, authentication and authorization frameworks (e.g., OAuth, OIDC, IAM), and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or cloud-native tooling).
5+ years of hands‑on experience in at least three of the following: Kubernetes and container orchestration; public cloud infrastructure (any major provider); CI/CD and deployment automation; Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management; production operations and reliability tooling.
Ownership of production systems supporting business-critical workloads, including incident response, post‑incident reviews, and reliability improvements at scale.
Experience implementing automated testing for platform capabilities: integration testing, contract testing, infrastructure validation, and deployment quality controls.
Strong written and verbal communication, translating complex technical concepts for engineering, product, and executive audiences.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading cross-functional technical initiatives, applying full SDLC practices, and implementing automation to enhance operational efficiency. Proficient in designing and operating cloud-native platforms and microservices-based systems with a focus on reliability and performance.