Principal Engineer - Platform Engineering/Site Reliability

FICO

1d • $146,000 - $229,000 • Remote

About The Position

"As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our cloud-native platform infrastructure. This role will be instrumental in building and maintaining scalable, resilient systems that empower our engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions rapidly and reliably. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical expertise in modern platform engineering practices, SRE & DevOps methodologies, and infrastructure automation." - VP, Cloud Engineering

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud & platform engineering, DevOps, developer enablement, or infrastructure roles with increasing responsibility.
• Expert-level proficiency with AWS cloud services especially in compute, storage, networking, implementing cloud native services, and developing resilient infrastructure architecture.
• Strong software engineering skills and methodologies.
• Deep Knowledge of AWS EKS or running multiple Kubernetes instances, VPC Configuration, AWS Waf, S3, RDS, and other cloud services.
• Experience with ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, CircleCI, or GitHub Actions.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform for multi-cloud resource provisioning and full stack deployments.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes infrastructure management and service mesh technologies like Istio and API gateway solutions.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, operators, custom resources, and ecosystem tools .
• Advanced programming skills in GoLang and Python for building platform tooling and automation.
• Experience with Grafanna, OTEL, and Backstage.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architectural decisions across engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical.
• Background in SRE or Software Engineering practices and principles.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or relevant experience.
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Crossplane a plus.
• Strong hands-on experience with developing golden paths for engineers and managing CI/CD pipelines leveraging GitOps workflows for Kubernetes application delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage scalable cloud solutions on AWS public cloud platform via Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging Terraform, CloudFormation and GoLang.
• Design and implement Kubernetes-based platform solutions with focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Support and maintain large Kubernetes clusters in production environments.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate infrastructure as code practices.
• Develop automation to build and deploy Docker Containers through CI/CD pipelines for engineering teams deploy and test services.
• Write policy & standard validation tests and integrations with Security Scanning software to ensure compliance.
• Implement and support Observability solutions to ensure platform performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Create Dashboards and integrate into Backstage IDP for visibility into system health.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to team members on best practices in GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure management.
• Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to integrate infrastructure as code practices across the organization.

Benefits

• An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers and Earn the Respect of Others.
• The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
• Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
• An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level