Principal Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or CDN architecture.
• Expertise in Fastly CDN, including caching, routing, edge logic, and traffic acceleration strategies.
• Proven experience in AWS microservices development using Java, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
• Extensive experience in AWS cloud services, including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, and CloudFront.
• Strong proficiency in serverless computing (AWS Lambda, API Gateway) and containerization (ECS, EKS, Fargate, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Deep understanding of AWS networking principles, DNS, and performance optimization in a distributed cloud environment.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Advanced Fastly CDN Engineering: Expertise in Fastly's edge computing, caching, routing, shielding, and WAF policies.
• AWS Cloud Microservices Development: Proven experience in developing, deploying, and scaling AWS-based serverless and containerized microservices architectures.
• Micro Frontend and Module Federation: Strong understanding of Micro Frontend architectures and module federation patterns to enable scalable, modular digital platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency in using Terraform or similar IaC tools for managing cloud infrastructure, promoting consistency and automation in deployments.
• API Development and Microservices: Expertise in developing scalable RESTful APIs and microservices architectures, with an emphasis on security, performance, and scalability.
• Performance Optimization: Experience in monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing platform performance using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Automation and Reliability: Experience in building self-healing systems, automating incident detection, and response processes to ensure platform uptime and availability.
• Leadership and Mentoring: Strong leadership abilities, including mentoring engineers, promoting knowledge sharing, and guiding technical discussions.
• CI/CD and DevOps Practices: Experience in automating deployments, blue-green deployments, and rolling updates using Harness, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Security and Performance Optimization: Strong understanding of WAF, bot mitigation, TLS, and API security best practices.
• Observability and Monitoring: Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Traffic Management and Load Balancing: Deep expertise in Fastly traffic routing, API gateways, and AWS networking optimization.

Desired Qualities:

• Strong passion for platform reliability, scalability, security, and performance optimization.
• Passion for Fastly CDN innovation, AWS cloud engineering, and performance optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering teams, product managers, and business stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience in architecting scalable, secure, and high-performance digital platforms.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to foster a collaborative engineering culture focused on security and scalability.