Principal Platform Engineer
Core
Designing and operating a multi-tenant platform infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and security/compliance systems for a fleet of products.
Role type
Principal Platform Engineer (Infrastructure & Security)
Builds
Container-orchestrated runtime, multi-tenant isolation, CI/CD pipelines, security gates, and observability systems.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Security Compliance
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu), Multi-tenant Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Cloud Identity & Network Security, Security as Code (OPA, Trivy), Observability (OpenTelemetry), Application Development (Go/Python/TypeScript)
Preferred skills
Consulting/Advisory platform experience, Virtual-cluster tooling (vcluster, Crossplane), AI coding assistant sandboxing, Cloud Architecture certifications, FinOps
Technologies
Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Azure/AWS/GCP, Snyk, Checkov, Trivy, OPA, Kyverno, OpenTelemetry, Go, Python, TypeScript
Responsibilities
Drive platform architecture and runtime direction; Design composable infrastructure as code; Implement security and compliance as code; Lead strategic architecture decisions; Mentor engineers and vendor partners.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership