Principal Platform Engineer

Role overview Shape the cloud platform and reliability practices behind software used in care, education, and related services. This principal-level role combines hands-on platform engineering with architectural leadership: modernizing infrastructure, improving how teams deliver software, and setting standards for secure, dependable operations.

Responsibilities - Define technical direction for scalable, secure cloud services that support product teams and their users. - Guide modernization of legacy infrastructure and help application teams adopt service-based deployment approaches. - Establish reliability practices such as service objectives, observability, operational readiness, and incident response. - Improve deployment safety, security controls, data protection, and infrastructure asset management. - Build automation and self-service tooling that improves developer productivity and feedback. - Mentor engineers and influence architecture decisions and engineering standards across teams.

Requirements - 10+ years building and operating critical platforms across infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, or software engineering. - Strong architectural judgment across scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operations. - Advanced AWS experience across areas such as compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, messaging, data, and monitoring. - Hands-on experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, deployment automation, source control, and production scripting. - Ability to contribute to cross-team architecture discussions and shape platform investment decisions. - Experience mentoring senior engineers and establishing durable technical standards.

Benefits and work setup The listing describes a hybrid work model, health coverage, paid time off, retirement plan matching, parental leave, career development support, and wellness programs. It also gives a base salary range of $200,000–$215,000 USD.