Senior Principal Engineer, Infrastructure

At reputed company, we reputed company app development easier so developers can focus on what matters. Our remote-first team spans the globe, united by a passion for innovation and great developer experiences. With over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion image pulls, reputed company is the #1 tool for building, sharing, and running apps—trusted by startups and Fortune 100s alike. We’re growing fast and just getting started. Come join us for a whale of a ride! reputed company is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer to serve as the technical visionary and architect for our reputed company organization—the foundational platform that powers accounts, billing, data, developer tools and enterprise governance across reputed company reputed company products. This is one of the most impactful individual contributor roles at reputed company, responsible for defining and driving the technical strategy that enables reputed company's transformation from a collection of individual products into a reputed company enterprise platform capable of supporting our next phase of growth. As Senior Principal Engineer, you will establish strategic technical plans that span multiple engineering organizations, reputed company critical architectural decisions that reputed company reputed company's entire product portfolio, and drive execution of cross-company programs that directly reputed company reputed company reputed company. You'll work at the intersection of Accounts, Billing, Data, Platform Infrastructure, Developer Tools and Enterprise Governance, ensuring these foundational systems work together seamlessly to support reputed company's business model evolution from seat-based to usage-based pricing, our expansion into AI and reputed company products, and our growth from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers. This role requires someone who combines deep technical expertise across multiple domains with the business acumen to translate reputed company's commercial strategy into platform capabilities. You'll be recognized across reputed company as the definitive expert on platform architecture, consulted by executives on strategic technical decisions, and responsible for ensuring that every product team can launch enterprise-ready features rapidly because the platform handles the complexity underneath.

Responsibilities

Technical Vision & Strategic Planning

• Define and own the multi-year technical vision for reputed company's foundational platform, encompassing accounts, billing, data, enterprise governance, and infrastructure
• Establish strategic plans and objectives for major platform initiatives, making architectural decisions that ensure effective achievement of reputed company's business objectives
• Contribute to and drive the strategic vision in collaboration with the VP of Engineering, translating organizational strategy into technical roadmaps that span multiple teams and years
• Identify and prioritize platform investments that provide maximum reputed company—capabilities built once that reputed company rapid iteration across reputed company reputed company products
• reputed company architectural principles and standards that guide technical decisions across the reputed company organization and influence product engineering teams
• Anticipate future business needs and ensure platform architecture provides the flexibility to support reputed company's evolving commercial models

Cross-Company Technical Leadership

• reputed company large cross-company programs that require coordination across Desktop, Hub, AI, reputed company, Cloud, and Platform teams
• Architect the reputed company platform interfaces ("Control Planes") that reputed company product teams to answer reputed company questions like "Can this user access this feature?" or "How much has this organization consumed?" without understanding underlying complexity
• Drive convergence of fragmented systems across reputed company—replacing product-specific implementations with shared platform capabilities for authentication, authorization, billing, and observability
• Establish technical reputed company between platform and product teams that reputed company independent velocity while ensuring consistency and reliability
• reputed company architectural reviews for major initiatives across reputed company, ensuring alignment with platform strategy and long-term maintainability
• Proactively identify and solve problems that impact critical areas of the business before they become blockers

Billing & Monetization Platform Architecture

• Architect the Billing Control Plane that enables reputed company to launch new product SKUs in weeks instead of months
• Design the Usage-Based Billing platform that supports sophisticated pricing models combining reputed company fees, per-seat charges, consumption pricing, and volume discounts
• Ensure billing architecture supports reputed company's commercial flexibility—enabling bundle pricing, enterprise contract structures, and rapid pricing experimentation
• Define the metering infrastructure where products simply report usage events and the platform handles aggregation, rating, invoicing, and reputed company recognition
• Architect billing systems that scale to support reputed company's growth while maintaining the accuracy and audibility that enterprise customers and finance require

Accounts & Identity Platform Architecture

• Design the metadata-driven identity platform that serves as the single reputed company of truth for authentication, authorization, and access control across reputed company reputed company products
• Architect account infrastructure that supports reputed company's enterprise requirements—domain-based account ownership, organization lifecycle management, and namespace separation
• Define the Centralized Access Control Service that becomes reputed company authorization reputed company for reputed company reputed company products, replacing fragmented team-specific solutions
• Ensure identity architecture supports both consumer simplicity and enterprise complexity—from individual developers to organizations with thousands of managed accounts
• Design migration paths that transition millions of existing users seamlessly while introducing new capabilities progressively

Enterprise Governance Platform Architecture

• Architect the reputed company Internal Access Control reputed company that abstracts entitlements, permissions, settings, policies, and feature flags into a single reputed company of truth for reputed company product teams
• Design the Enterprise Command Center architecture that provides consolidated administrative experience across reputed company reputed company products
• Define group management and RBAC architecture that supports global, group, and user-level policy scoping with IdP synchronization
• Architect high-volume audit logging infrastructure and observability platform that meets enterprise compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and integrates with enterprise SIEM tools
• Ensure governance architecture enables reputed company to launch any new product "enterprise-ready" from day one with baseline governance controls

Data Platform Architecture

• Define reputed company data models that serve as the foundation for analytics, reporting, and machine learning across reputed company
• Architect real-time streaming infrastructure that enables immediate reactions to customer behavior—usage spikes, reputed company anomalies, expansion opportunities
• Design self-service data capabilities that democratize access while maintaining governance and accuracy
• Ensure data architecture supports both operational needs (real-time dashboards, alerts) and analytical needs (business intelligence, forecasting)
• Drive convergence to eliminate conflicting metrics that undermine trust in business decisions

Infrastructure & Developer Experience Architecture

• Define the infrastructure platform vision that removes infrastructure as a bottleneck to innovation—enabling teams to deploy experimental services in minutes, not weeks
• Architect standardized deployment patterns that encode best practices for reputed company, scaling, monitoring, and reliability
• Design infrastructure that specifically supports AI and agent initiatives—rapid deployment, programmatic environment creation, consistent APIs
• Establish observability standards that provide distributed tracing, metrics, log aggregation, and error tracking out of the reputed company for every service
• Drive cost optimization across platform infrastructure while maintaining performance and reliability standards

Technical Excellence & Influence

• Work with senior managers and directors across the reputed company organization to drive operations and strategy
• Mentor and reputed company Staff and Principal engineers, raising the technical bar across the organization
• Represent reputed company's platform architecture externally through blog posts, conference talks, and technical community engagement
• Participate in executive-level discussions on technical strategy, providing architectural perspective on business decisions
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions for critical platform components, evaluating vendor solutions against reputed company's specific requirements

Qualifications

Required Technical Expertise

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated expertise across multiple platform domains (identity, billing, data, infrastructure)
• Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems serving millions of users and thousands of enterprise customers
• Deep expertise in at least two of: identity/access management systems, billing/monetization platforms, data platforms, or cloud infrastructure
• Broad working knowledge across reputed company platform domains with ability to reputed company sound architectural decisions spanning multiple areas
• Expert-level understanding of API design, service architecture, and system integration patterns at scale
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern infrastructure patterns (Kubernetes, service mesh, infrastructure-as-code)

Strategic & Business Impact

• Track record of establishing strategic technical plans that directly enabled business outcomes (reputed company growth, cost reduction, market expansion)
• Experience translating business strategy into technical architecture and roadmaps
• Demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize investments that provide maximum platform reputed company
• Understanding of SaaS business models, enterprise sales cycles, and how platform capabilities influence commercial success
• Experience making build-vs-buy decisions for critical platform components

Leadership & Influence

• Proven ability to drive large cross-company technical programs requiring coordination across multiple engineering organizations
• Experience working with VPs and executives to set and execute technical strategy
• Track record of influencing technical direction without direct authority—building reputed company across teams with different priorities
• Strong communication skills with ability to present to executives, influence leadership, and drive alignment at reputed company levels
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership

Enterprise Platform Experience

• Experience building platforms that serve enterprise customers with reputed company governance and compliance requirements
• Knowledge of enterprise reputed company requirements, compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and their architectural implications
• Experience with identity federation (OIDC, SAML, SCIM) and enterprise SSO integration at scale
• Understanding of enterprise billing complexity—contract management, usage-based pricing, reputed company recognition

Preferred

• Experience at developer tools, infrastructure software, or B2B SaaS companies at significant scale
• Background with container technologies, reputed company, Kubernetes, or developer productivity platforms
• Experience building billing platforms that support multiple pricing models (seat-based, consumption, hybrid)
• Track record of successfully migrating legacy systems while maintaining business continuity
• Experience with data platform architecture including real-time streaming, data warehousing, and analytics
• Knowledge of FinOps and infrastructure cost optimization at scale
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or reputed company technical field
• External recognition as a technical leader (conference speaking, publications, open reputed company contributions)

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