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Principal Platform Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Oct 14, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

As a senior individual contributor, the full-time Principal Platform Engineer will serve as the technical authority for a multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure, driving architecture decisions and systems design while collaborating with cross-functional teams in a fully remote capacity or at hub locations in Brooklyn, NY, or Washington, DC.

Key responsibilities
  • Drive technical decisions and systems architecture across multiple organizations and contribute to company-wide design initiatives
  • Own the platform reference architecture across various environments and define engineering patterns for teams to follow
  • Translate company strategy into technical strategy, ensuring alignment with customer and product outcomes while communicating options to leadership
Required qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in building and operating cloud infrastructure, with a focus on platform engineering
  • Production experience in AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale
  • Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools
  • Deep experience with Kubernetes, including cluster management and multi-cluster operations
  • Programming ability in Python, Go, or similar languages, with a history of writing code

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