Principal Engineer - Enterprise OS Platform (Linux/Unix)

Looking for Principal Engineer - Enterprise OS Platform (Linux/Unix)

What you’ll be doing 

• Own and maintain a multi-horizon Linux/Unix platform roadmap aligned to business, security, operational resilience, and AI priorities
• Anticipate future demand, lifecycle events, platform risks, and emerging technology needs to ensure proactive planning rather than reactive support
• Drive platform standardization through infrastructure-as-code, hardened baselines, standard images, and self-service operational capabilities
• Partner across infrastructure, application, security, and risk teams to improve platform stability, recovery readiness, observability, and compliance
• Reduce operational toil and fragmented patterns by advancing automation-first platform operations and scalable service delivery models
• Enable secure adoption of AI/ML and data workloads by evolving Linux platform capabilities to support performance, governance, and intelligent operations
• Translate platform strategy into measurable outcomes, milestones, and investment priorities, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders
• Identify and consolidate overlapping OS platform responsibilities (e.g., hardening, lifecycle management, automation, observability) to increase leverage and reduce duplicated effort

What you bring

• Bachelor''s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or at least 7 to 10 years of professional experience
• Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Platform Lead, or similar role supporting enterprise infrastructure or platform services
• Strong experience administering or leading enterprise Linux/Unix platforms supporting critical production workloads
• Experience delivering automation, infrastructure-as-code, standardization, or self-service platform initiatives in large-scale environments
• Experience presenting technical strategy, roadmap direction, and delivery priorities to both technical and executive stakeholders

Added bonus if you have

• Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or other advanced compute workloads in enterprise environments
• Experience with observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, or automated remediation practices
• Experience in security-focused, regulated, or audit-driven environments
• Experience developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps for shared infrastructure platforms