Principal Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Platform Engineer (2 positions)
• Type: Long-term contract
• Location: Remote (USA/Canada)

Description

Own and evolve the platform and cloud architecture across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure. Drive cloud modernization, define reference architectures and guardrails, and improve reliability and operational excellence with strong observability practices. Provide technical leadership for FedRAMP/government cloud readiness and mentor senior engineers through best practices and reusable “golden paths.”

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge across Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, and modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue.js)
• Hands-on cloud architecture experience across AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Azure
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems for B2B SaaS with resiliency, scalability, and cost/performance tradeoffs
• Experience with global cloud systems (multi-region, disaster recovery, high availability, data residency considerations)
• Experience supporting FedRAMP and/or comparable government cloud certification efforts or similarly regulated environments
• Ability to partner with Security/Compliance while maintaining engineering velocity and developer experience
• Senior IC leadership: influence without authority, align stakeholders, drive decisions
• Strong written and verbal communication for design docs and architectural proposals
• Proven mentoring/coaching impact across teams

Responsibilities

• Own platform and cloud architecture; define and evolve architecture for networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy
• Drive modernization: migration, re-platforming, standard deployment patterns, scalability and resilience improvements
• Create reference architectures and guardrails that increase autonomy and consistency
• Set reliability standards and practices using SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response, and postmortems
• Improve observability and operational readiness with monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, and runbooks to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents
• Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and lead cross-team initiatives
• Enable government cloud readiness (FedRAMP) by translating controls into engineering requirements and implementation plans
• Lead technical reviews for identity/access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes
• Raise the bar through standards and mentorship: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness
• Mentor engineers and build reusable patterns (“golden paths”) such as templates, libraries, and tooling

Benefits

Long-term remote contract role focused on platform architecture, reliability engineering, and regulated-environment readiness.