Principal Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Principal Platform Engineer leads the technical direction and architecture of a commercial platform that processes and serves satellite imagery data. This role involves overseeing AI product design, ensuring high user experience standards, and managing a development lifecycle that integrates customer feedback efficiently. Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and geospatial data is essential for success in this position.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production software, including 3+ years as a staff or principal engineer or technical lead on a platform team.
• Direct work with customers, turning insights into shipped products quickly.
• Experience shaping products, APIs, or developer experiences with high usability.
• Hands-on experience with LLM, retrieval, or agent systems in production.
• Using AI tools to enhance development lifecycle efficiency.
• Experience making build decisions with business trade-offs.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed data pipelines, and API design.
• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, or imagery processing preferred.
• Experience with enterprise identity, multi-tenant SaaS, or marketplace platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Stay close to customers.
• Shorten the path from feedback to production.
• Hold a high bar for user experience.
• Own the architecture.
• Set the bar for agentic products.
• Run an AI-native development lifecycle.
• Make customer-centric decisions.
• Raise the engineering bar.
• Lead the team.

Skills

Relocation