Principal Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Principal Platform Engineer designs and improves the technical foundations for reliable, secure, internet-scale data systems that support real-time threat intelligence. The role spans data processing, cloud and on-prem infrastructure management, observability, and architecture across the system design lifecycle, while setting engineering standards and providing technical leadership. The work involves large-scale orchestration and internet protocols including DNS, Whois, and RDAP.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in software, hardware, or systems engineering, or technical operations leadership.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale orchestration systems.
• Experience with internet protocols and standards such as DNS, Whois, and RDAP.
• Experience in internet security.
• Ability to work across organizational boundaries to solve problems.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to explain and defend architectural designs and adapt them to business constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop foundations for real-time, internet-scale data processing and management.
• Develop platforms for software and infrastructure management across cloud and on-premises systems.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling for logging, metrics, and alerting across cloud and on-premises systems.
• Define technical standards and engineering best practices.
• Reconcile complex distributed architectures across organizations and legacy systems.
• Provide technical leadership across the engineering organization.

Skills

Industry

Relocation