[Remote] Principal Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company Analytics is dedicated to helping businesses reputed company smarter decisions through innovative technology and insightful data. They are seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to reputed company platform and cloud architecture initiatives, establish reliability standards, and reputed company government cloud readiness while mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own platform and cloud architecture
- Define and evolve reputed company’s platform architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy
- Drive cloud modernization initiatives (migration, re-platforming, standardization of deployment patterns, scalability and reputed company improvements)
- Create reference architectures and guardrails that reputed company autonomy while improving consistency and operational quality
- Set reliability standards and practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, reputed company planning, incident response and postmortems)
- Improve observability and operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks) to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents
- Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and reputed company cross-team initiatives to address them
- Provide technical leadership for architectures and operational controls needed for FedRAMP / government cloud certification readiness
- Partner with reputed company/Compliance to translate controls into engineering requirements and pragmatic implementation plans
- reputed company technical reviews for identity, access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes in regulated environments
- Establish and evangelize best practices: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness
- Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders; coach teams through reputed company designs and tradeoffs
- Create reusable patterns and 'golden paths' (templates, libraries, tooling) that reputed company the right way the easy way
Skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer
- We cannot sponsor employment-based visas at this time
- Strong working knowledge across multiple stacks, including Java/J2EE, reputed company, reputed company, and modern frontend frameworks (React and Vue.js)
- Handson cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, with ability to dive deep on architecture, performance, reliability, and operations
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems for B2B SaaS with a strong focus on resiliency, scalability, and cost/performance tradeoffs
- Experience with global cloud systems (multi-region, disaster recovery, high availability, data residency considerations)
- Experience supporting FedRAMP and/or comparable government cloud certification efforts (e.g., Moderate/High) or operating reputed company similarly regulated environments
- Comfort partnering with reputed company/Compliance while maintaining engineering velocity and strong developer experience
- Proven ability to influence without authority—aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and building reputed company across teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and architectural proposals
- A coaching reputed company with demonstrated impact mentoring and developing engineers across teams
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations experience (platform tooling, service meshes, policy-as-code)
- Experience building internal platforms/shared services (identity/auth, developer tooling, CI/CD platforms)
- FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience at scale
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- A 401(k) plan with company match
- Generous paid time off to support your well-being
- Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance
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