Principal Platform Engineer- Hybrid

Focus: Internal Developer Platform (IDP), Security & Developer Experience (DevEx)

Role Mission
As a Principal Platform Engineer, you are responsible for building the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that serves as the foundation for our entire engineering organization. You will move beyond tickets and tasks to build a scalable, self-service product that encapsulates infrastructure, security, and deployment into a seamless API or UI. Your goal is to provide Golden Paths opinionated, pre-approved workflows that allow developers to focus on shipping features rather than managing YAML.

Expanded Platform Engineering Responsibilities

Platform-as-a-Product: Shape the platform roadmap by seeing internal developers as your customers. Use metrics such as Internal Net Promoter Score (iNPS) and Developer Velocity to decide which features to build first.

Self-Service Infrastructure: Build and maintain an orchestration layer that allows developers to spin up databases, caches, and clusters via a service catalog.

Abstraction & API Design: Create high-level abstractions, so developers don t need to be Kubernetes experts. You will design the APIs or CLI tools that hide underlying cloud complexity.

The Golden Path: Create paved roads for common architectural patterns (e.g., Microservices, Event-driven workers) that include automated logging, monitoring, and security by default.

Observability & Reliability: Build the platform s control plane to provide centralized telemetry, enabling teams to own their application health.

FinOps & Resource Management: Set up automated cost tracking and resource limits in the platform to help control cloud spending.

Security-as-Code: Turn company security policies into automated checks that block non-compliant deployments and collect audit evidence automatically.

Secure Supply Chain & Zero Trust: Build a trusted software supply chain with artifact scanning, image signing, and policy-based verification. Implement identity-based access and least-privilege permissions, eliminating static secrets and enabling Zero Trust principles across environments.

Technical Profile: The Platform Stack

Control Planes: Deep experience with Kubernetes Operators and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to extend K8s into a custom platform.

Infrastructure Orchestration: Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or OpenTofu to provision GKE & EKS environments at scale.

Developer Interface: Practical experience building developer-facing platforms and portals. Experience with the Backstage framework is preferred, with a focus on usability, discoverability, and driving platform adoption.

Internal Tooling: Skilled at building custom command-line tools in Go or Rust to make complex developer workflows easier.