We are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical leader within our DevOps organization.
This role partners closely with other senior technical leaders to translate strategic platform direction into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly infrastructure capabilities. The Principal will lead the technical execution of platform initiatives, elevate engineering standards, and drive measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery velocity.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design and implement platform capabilities across our serverless and Kubernetes environments, guide senior engineers, and influence engineering practices across teams.
Key Responsibilities and Outputs
Technical Leadership & Execution
- Partner with Architects to implement and operationalize platform strategy.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of platform capabilities across:
- Serverless-first AWS workloads
- Kubernetes (EKS) environments
- Break down large architectural initiatives into executable milestones.
- Guide platform implementation patterns and reusable modules.
Reliability & Operational Improvement
- Drive systemic improvements that reduce incident frequency and severity.
- Strengthen observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Support adoption of Product focused SRE frameworks across teams.
- Improve deployment safety, change management, and incident response practices.
Platform Evolution
- Improve CI/CD automation and deployment workflows.
- Contribute to Kubernetes cluster design evolution and networking patterns.
- Improve logging pipelines, cost visibility, tagging standards, and platform guardrails.
- Support platform modernization efforts with a focus on simplification and predictability.
Engineering Enablement
- Improve developer experience across platform offerings.
- Establish clear golden paths for deployment and monitoring.
- Contribute to DORA metric visibility and engineering performance improvements.
- Support responsible AI tooling adoption in our workflows.
Influence & Mentorship
- Mentor senior engineers and elevate platform engineering standards.
- Lead technical discussions and design reviews.
- Make tradeoffs visible and articulate technical risk clearly.
- Reinforce disciplined intake and prioritization practices to protect strategic capacity.