Principal Solution Architect, Platform Engineering (SRE)

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Solution Architect (Platform Engineering focus, primarily SRE)

Description

You will design and drive adoption of next-generation enterprise platform capabilities, with a primary focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The role covers the full reliability lifecycle—from reliability design and SLOs to observability, incident response, and continuous improvement to eliminate operational toil. You will bring enterprise architecture practices and cloud-native patterns to help engineering teams deliver secure, reliable, high-quality products faster.

Responsibilities

• Contribute platform architecture and subject-matter expertise across platform domains, designing systems such as APIs, services, events, data, and UI

• Create and communicate target-state designs with artifacts (business case, process context, diagrams, architecture decision records)

• Lead the SRE platform architecture and roadmap, including OpenTelemetry-based observability, SLO-based alerting, AIOps/event correlation, incident response and on-call tooling, and runbook automation/self-healing

• Embed reliability into “paved paths” with SLIs/SLOs/error budgets, resilience patterns (redundancy, graceful degradation, failover), production readiness reviews, safe change practices (progressive delivery, automated rollback), and chaos/disaster recovery testing

• Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews that drive measurable operational improvement

• Partner to modernize front-end, middle-tier, and back-end technology stacks within an AI-first delivery model

• Lead evaluations of vendors for fit with platform strategy and integration patterns

• Define and drive adoption of integration patterns so high-quality data/events/services are available for consumption across channels

• Validate designs via proofs of concept and reference implementations; contribute to governance/architecture reviews

• Articulate business value and trade-offs for the architectural roadmap; align with broader business and engineering strategy

Requirements

• 10+ years of solution architecture and senior software engineering experience with significant hands-on product delivery in a fast-paced global environment

• Expert understanding of software and internet architecture, including modern front-end and back-end stacks, API management, identity and access management, cloud-native and on-premises infrastructure, networking, and application delivery

• Deep expertise in SRE capabilities: SLO/error-budget practices, observability/telemetry architecture, AIOps, incident management and root cause analysis, resilience and disaster recovery

• Strong understanding of how IAM, security, and network policies affect reliability/operability/troubleshooting

• Proven delivery of platform capabilities supporting consumer-facing software products, particularly API- and event-driven systems

• Experience with modern SDLC and engineering practices (AI-enabled development, DevSecOps, platform-as-a-product)

• Understanding of modern information security and data protection practices in regulated environments

Benefits

• Opportunity to modernize and transform engineering through next-generation platform patterns and enterprise architecture governance