Principal Platform Software Developer

Codan Limited•Cana, CA

3d•$160,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Zetron is an established global leader in connecting communication centers with field operations, personnel, and constituents. With offices in the US, UK, AU and CA, Zetron currently has a network of established partners, value-added resellers, and clients in more than 100 countries. Our Victoria, British Columbia office has been a center of engineering and manufacturing excellence since its founding in 1938. For over 80 years, we have been a trusted provider of LMR communication products and solutions that help our customers protect, inform, and save lives. Now we are applying those standards of excellence to build and deliver interoperable end-to-end command and control systems across multiple industries and international markets. With over 400 team members located across the globe, our developers work on platforms and products where reliability, security, and operational excellence are foundational, not optional. Always ready, always on! Zetron is seeking a Principal Platform Software Developer to join the Platform Engineering Team as a senior individual contributor. In this role, you will provide technical leadership across Zetron’s platform ecosystem, spanning both DevOps and Cloud/SRE concerns. You will design, review, and evolve cloud and on-premises application platforms that support mission-critical systems with demanding reliability, security, and operational requirements. This role operates with minimal oversight and significant autonomy. You will work across teams and domains to solve complex platform challenges, influence architectural direction, and ensure platform capabilities align with long-term business, reliability, and security goals. While this is not a people-management role, it carries broad technical accountability and organizational influence with an expectation of mentorship for all members on the team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience and education
Ten or more years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, SRE, or closely related roles, evaluated on a skills basis
Deep hands-on experience designing and operating production platforms in cloud and/or hybrid environments
Strong experience with AWS and modern cloud architectures
Advanced experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automation practices
Strong understanding of reliability engineering, observability, and incident response
Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and technical decisions across teams

Responsibilities

Design and evolve cloud and on-premises platform architectures supporting mission-critical applications
Review and guide platform designs and implementations across DevOps and Cloud/SRE streams
Define platform patterns, standards, and reference architectures that scale across teams
Act as a trusted technical advisor to leaders and application teams
Be an advocate and safe-guard for quality of design and code that is produced by the platform engineering team
Embed reliability and security considerations into platform architecture and design decisions
Identify systemic reliability and security risks and drive platform-wide improvements
Guide the evolution of observability, incident response practices, and operational maturity
Ensure platform designs align with organizational reliability targets, risk tolerance, and compliance requirements
Design and influence cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, primarily in AWS, with awareness of hybrid and on-prem environments
Guide the use of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automation to improve consistency, safety, and scalability
Evaluate and influence tooling and technology choices across the platform ecosystem
Familiar with Infrastructure as Code automation tools like Atmos, Spacelift, Terraform Cloud, or similar
Provide senior technical leadership during high-severity incidents and complex outages
Drive post-incident learning and ensure systemic issues are addressed through design and process changes
Contribute to disaster recovery strategy, architectural readiness, and recovery planning
Run disaster recovery drills, identifying key failures, and opportunities for improvement
Mentor Staff and Senior developers through design reviews, technical guidance, and problem-solving
Collaborate with security, operations, and product stakeholders to align platform capabilities with business needs
Raise the technical bar through example, documentation, and clear technical communication