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Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms

Atlanta💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services and platforms (Kubernetes, Event-Driven Architecture, CI/CD, Observability) for product and application teams in a multi-cloud environment.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms (Infrastructure/Platform Engineering)

Builds

Reusable, reliable, and scalable shared infrastructure services, Kubernetes platforms, and distributed system components.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Kubernetes (production, multi-tenant), Go (Golang), Python, Event-Driven Architecture, Kafka/Pub/Sub, CI/CD (GitLab CI, ArgoCD), Distributed Systems, RESTful API design, Service Mesh (Istio, Envoy), Relational Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Multi-region cloud strategies, Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)

Preferred skills

Multi-cloud abstractions, building internal tools for other engineers

Technologies

Kubernetes, Go, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Istio, Envoy, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, PostgreSQL, MySQL

Responsibilities

Architect and manage highly available Kubernetes platforms; develop internal automation tools in Go; design Event-Driven Architecture components; optimize foundational cloud solutions; build resilient distributed system components; manage multi-region cloud environments; establish centralized observability platforms; define RESTful API designs; implement Service Mesh capabilities; design relational database services; collaborate with product teams on infrastructure needs; participate in on-call rotations.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with architectural influence

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