Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering

Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Architect and drive the evolution of Kubernetes platform strategy across cloud and on-premises environments supporting mission-critical workloads at scale.

Lead the design and implementation of platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer productivity for hundreds of engineering teams.

Partner with engineering, security, and product leaders to define multi-year platform roadmaps and drive execution of company-critical initiatives.

Provide technical leadership during major incidents, architecture reviews, platform transformations, and strategic infrastructure investments.

Mentor senior engineers and help raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, operational excellence, and architectural guidance.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience operating Kubernetes platforms in production, including multi-cluster environments.
• Experience architecting and operating cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting networking architectures for large-scale Kubernetes platforms, including CNI implementations, ingress and egress traffic management, service-to-service communication, multi-cluster connectivity, and network observability.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies, including Terraform and ArgoCD or equivalent platforms.
• Proven track record leading cross-organizational platform initiatives and influencing technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience implementing SRE practices, including SLOs, incident management, production readiness reviews, and operational excellence programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of networking (i.e. switching, routing, wifi, IoT).