Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

Lead the design and operation of the cloud infrastructure platform supporting large-scale aerial imagery, computer vision, and machine learning workloads. Set technical direction while remaining hands-on and leading up to three engineers, building Kubernetes fleets across AWS and GCP, GPU-capable compute, Terraform infrastructure, self-service provisioning, CI/CD, observability, and security foundations. Own infrastructure reliability, capacity, incident response, and cloud costs.

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Qualifications

• At least 10 years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, including at least 4 years building and operating large-scale cloud platforms or production distributed systems.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring or managing engineers.
• Production-level expertise designing, building, and operating Kubernetes at scale, including EKS or GKE, node pools, and GPU compute.
• Hands-on experience managing AWS and GCP infrastructure with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Strong grounding in cloud networking, identity and access management, and secrets management.
• Production-quality Python or Go skills and experience with Git, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and automated testing.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes fleets, compute, networking, identity, and storage across AWS and GCP.
• Design and operate GPU-capable compute, including node pools, drivers, device plugins, autoscaling, and multi-tenant isolation.
• Lead, mentor, and hire for a team of up to three platform engineers.
• Own Terraform infrastructure and build self-service provisioning paths.
• Build CI/CD and observability foundations, including pipelines, metrics, logs, and traces.
• Own infrastructure reliability, service level objectives, capacity, cloud costs, and major incident response.
• Implement least-privilege identity, secrets management, network segmentation, and private connectivity between clouds.
• Secure the software supply chain and workloads through image scanning, admission policies, runtime controls, and vulnerability response.
• Co-own shared platform standards and paved paths with the Platform team.

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