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Principal Platform Engineer

First Resonance · Los Angeles, United States

External listingfull-time3 months ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Principal Platform Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in scaling our backend, improving reliability and performance, and providing technical judgment on infrastructure changes. You will own platform architecture at scale, drive reliability and uptime, lead performance initiatives, review and de-risk changes, build leverage for the team, and improve operational excellence. You will also mentor engineers, partner cross-functionally, and have a significant impact on our platform's success.

  • Évaluer et faire évoluer l'architecture backend pour soutenir la croissance des clients, du volume de données et de la surface produit.
  • Établir et améliorer les pratiques de fiabilité (SLOs/SLIs, réponse aux incidents, postmortems, efficacité des appels).
  • Identifier les goulets d'étranglement de performance systémiques et diriger les initiatives pour améliorer la performance.
  • We’re hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to serve as a platform leader: someone with deep expertise in software infrastructure and architecture who has built and operated scaled, high-uptime systems
  • Track record of leading large technical initiatives across teams or across a complex codebase
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating high-availability, high-uptime services (including incident response and postmortem culture)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain tradeoffs clearly and drive alignment
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time owning backend/platform systems in production
  • Strong systems thinking across distributed systems, databases, caching, queues, APIs, and cloud infrastructure
  • Prior experience as a Staff/Principal Engineer (or equivalent scope) at a high-scale infrastructure org
  • Depth in one or more of: SRE / reliability engineering, performance engineering, database scalability, multi-tenant architectures, zero-downtime migrations
  • Experience building internal platforms that enable other engineers (tooling, CI/CD, shared services, paved roads)
  • Experience in or affinity for manufacturing, industrial software, or hard-tech customer environments

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