Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering
Required skills
15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments, 7+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including multi-cluster environments, Experience architecting and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments, Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations, ingress and egress traffic management, service-to-service communication, multi-cluster connectivity, and network observability, Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD or equivalent platforms, Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to effectively influence engineers, architects, senior leaders, and executive stakeholders, Proven track record leading cross-organizational platform initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple engineering teams, Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and operational excellence programs, Strong software engineering experience with Go, Python, or similar programming languages used for automation and platform development
Preferred skills
Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture, Knowledge of networking (i.e. switching, routing, wifi, IoT)
Technologies
Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid cloud, networking architectures, CNI implementations, ingress and egress traffic management, service-to-service communication, multi-cluster connectivity, network observability, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, Terraform, ArgoCD, SRE practices, SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews, operational excellence programs, Go, Python
Responsibilities
Architect and drive the evolution of Kubernetes platform strategy across cloud and on-premises environments supporting mission-critical workloads at scale, Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams, Partner with engineering, security, and product leaders to define multi-year platform roadmaps and drive execution of company-critical initiatives, Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments, Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, operational excellence, and architectural guidance
Seniority
Principal Engineer
Domain
Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, networking, SRE, distributed systems