Principal Platform Engineer

Job summary

Tra*** is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of infrastructure for a global trading platform. This role involves significant hands-on engineering, focusing on AI-driven operations and providing technical mentorship across teams.

Qualifications

• A background in Operations or SRE running highly available, redundant production platforms
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS and Azure
• Strong Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing concepts, firewalls, load balancing
• Production Kubernetes experience at scale
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation as a default working style
• Demonstrable, practical use of AI tooling to improve engineering or operational workflows
• The credibility and communication skills to mentor senior engineers
• Understanding of different database technologies

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure across AWS (VPC, networking, EKS), Azure (AKS, AKV, networking)
• Own core networking design and implementation across within Cloud environments
• Engineer for high availability: multi-region and multi-AZ architectures, failover design, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes platforms
• Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and observability standards
• Take part in post-incident reviews and help with the resulting reliability work to completion
• Continuously reduce toil through automation
• Identify, prototype, and productionise AI-assisted workflows across the department
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools as a first-class part of your own workflow
• Establish sensible guardrails for AI use in a regulated, availability-critical environment
• Act as a mentor to engineers across the Platform and Operations teams
• Be a design authority on cross-team projects
• Contribute to the technical roadmap for the platform function

Skills

Relocation