Principal Backend Engineer (Developer Platform)

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Backend Engineer (Developer Platform)

• Focus: Developer platform infrastructure, CI/CD scaling, and pipeline security

Description

You’ll be the senior technical voice for Epic’s developer platform—source control, CI/CD, build, artifact, database, and cloud infrastructure used by developer teams.

The primary focus is rebuilding and scaling systems to support millions of agentic CI/CD actions per day, while solving hard cross-team infrastructure problems and setting forward-looking platform strategy.

You’ll also help shape safe adoption of AI coding tools and agentic programming across teams.

Responsibilities

• Set technical strategy and design for the developer platform across source control, CI/CD, build, artifact management, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure

• Define strategy for software supply chain and pipeline security; partner with security and governance teams

• Tackle the hardest cross-team problems and drive them to working solutions

• Stay hands-on by prototyping, writing critical code, and reviewing designs

• Write clear strategy documents, design proposals, and decision records

• Align priorities with leadership, making trade-offs between cost, reliability, and speed

• Mentor Senior Programmers and Technical Leads; raise the technical bar across the organization

• Lead adoption of AI coding tools and agentic programming, including systems and guardrails for safe, effective use

• Represent Epic in technical discussions with cloud providers and tool vendors (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, GitHub)

Requirements

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure and developer platforms; track record shaping strategy across multiple systems and teams

• Deep experience with AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code

• Broad knowledge of source control, CI/CD, and build systems at scale

• Strong understanding of software supply chain and infrastructure security; experience partnering with security and governance teams

• Track record leading cross-team technical initiatives from ambiguous problems through to delivered results

• Strong hands-on programming ability writing production code and tooling in Python, Go, or similar

• Experience with AI coding tools and agentic engineering

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain complex trade-offs to engineers and leadership

• Good judgment in ambiguous situations and comfort making decisions with incomplete information

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance (100% premiums for you and dependents)

• 401k with competitive match

• Mental well-being program (Modern Health) with free therapy and coaching

• Unlimited PTO and sick time; paid sabbatical after 7 years

• Company events and company-wide paid breaks