Principal Platform Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Apr 15, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer.

Key Responsibilities
  • Architect and execute the hybrid cloud strategy, designing networking, security, and compute layers for workload mobility
  • Lead enhancements to the Kubernetes-based developer framework to improve scalability and developer velocity
  • Define standards for service reliability, observability, and production-grade stability across platform-layer services
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 12+ years in Software or Infrastructure Engineering, with significant experience in a Principal or Architect role
  • Deep knowledge of Kubernetes internals and ecosystem
  • Proven experience designing and migrating complex workloads between on-prem data centers and AWS
  • Expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and advanced observability tooling

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