Principal/Staff Platform Engineer

Salary: $81,000 - 121,000 per year Requirements:

• Significant experience in software, systems, or platform engineering, or a related discipline, supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience defining technical strategy and leading architecture initiatives for large-scale compute or platform engineering organizations.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-native platforms across public and hybrid cloud environments.
• Deep expertise with enterprise container orchestration platforms, containerized workloads, and modern application deployment patterns.
• Strong understanding of container ecosystem concepts, including workload scheduling, networking, storage integration, platform security, CNI, and CSI.
• Experience with cloud deployment technologies, Infrastructure as Code platforms, declarative infrastructure lifecycle management, and platform automation.
• Experience building platform engineering capabilities that enhance developer productivity, self-service adoption, operational consistency, and platform reliability.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, performance analysis, reliability engineering, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience with modern telemetry instrumentation, monitoring, and observability platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership mentoring engineers, driving organizational change, defining technical standards, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to influence and lead globally distributed engineering organizations through technical expertise, architectural leadership, stakeholder alignment, and delivery of complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Familiarity with Agile software development, architecture governance, and technical decision-making frameworks.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineering and executive audiences.

• Define and drive the long-term vision, architecture, and technical roadmap for Compute Platform services supporting the Aladdin engineering ecosystem.
• Lead the development of our cloud-native compute strategy, ensuring platform capabilities meet the scalability, resiliency, security, and performance needs of mission-critical workloads.
• Establish engineering standards and reference architectures for containerization, workload orchestration, platform automation, and developer self-service.
• Advance platform engineering practices that improve developer productivity, accelerate software delivery, and support consistent operational excellence.
• Partner with engineering organizations across Aladdin to modernize application deployment patterns and promote cloud-native operating models.
• Set strategic direction for compute platform capabilities, including workload scheduling, container lifecycle management, observability, platform reliability, and service resiliency.
• Lead automation and modernization initiatives that reduce operational complexity, increase platform consistency, and improve engineering efficiency.
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineers and technical leads, while influencing practices, architectural standards, and platform strategy across globally distributed teams.
• Advise engineering leadership on platform strategy, technology investment decisions, and long-term modernization priorities.
• Promote engineering excellence through operational ownership, architectural rigor, continuous improvement, and measurable platform outcomes.
• Apply sound judgment and critical thinking to complex problems, adapt to evolving business needs, and assess new approaches and technologies rigorously.

• Cloud
• Support
• Java
• Python
• Security
• DevOps

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with BlackRock. As Principal Engineer, Systems Engineering – Compute Platform, you will join our global System Operations Platform organization, which builds and operates critical compute capabilities for the Aladdin engineering ecosystem. Our teams work across regions and support platform products and services that help developers build, deploy, and operate applications at scale across on-premises and cloud environments. As we continue our cloud transformation, this role will shape cloud-native platforms, modernize application deployment, and strengthen reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity for engineers worldwide. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on architecture, strategy, and organizational influence; it may also involve guiding and mentoring a small team.

last updated 42 week of 2026