Principal Data Platform Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and define architecture and standards for Kubernetes, distributed systems, and hyperscaler infrastructure across multiple engineering teams.
• Design and operate cloud-native platform capabilities including multi-cloud topology, control planes, workload isolation, identity and trust fabrics, and large-scale reliability.
• Solve ambiguous, high-impact technical problems and mitigate risks for initiatives with C-suite visibility.
• Drive consistent architectural decisions and best-practice adoption across the platform ecosystem.
• Provide technical leadership across teams and mentor staff and senior engineers.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience with a bachelor’s degree or 12+ years with a master’s degree designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep experience running Kubernetes at scale across multi-cluster, multi-region, and multi-tenant environments.
• Hands-on experience with one or more major hyperscalers, their managed Kubernetes offerings, and associated networking, IAM, and capacity tradeoffs.
• Strong programming skills in Go and fluency across the cloud-native ecosystem.
• Expertise with operator/controller patterns, infrastructure-as-code, control planes such as Crossplane, GitOps delivery, container networking, and service mesh.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams and integrating AI into engineering or platform work.
• Preferred experience with workload identity, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, multi-tenant workload isolation, runtime security, regulated or federal platforms, observability at scale, and platform-as-product practices.

Benefits

• Base pay is $240,100-$420,200, plus equity when applicable, variable or incentive compensation, and benefits.
• Benefits include health plans, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, flexible time away, and family leave programs.
• The role has a flexible work persona and is a regular employee position.