Principal Platform Engineer

Join Altana as a Principal Platform Engineer, where you will be the technical authority for the platform our products run on. In this senior individual contributor role, you will steer architecture across organizational boundaries and have a significant impact on the speed of product delivery and infrastructure costs. You will own the platform reference architecture, lead the architecture for cross-cutting platform concerns, and set the standard for infrastructure as code and release engineering. Additionally, you will mentor and grow engineers, participate in hiring, and represent Altana's technical work with customers and partners.

• Conduire des décisions techniques et l'architecture des systèmes à travers plusieurs organisations, et contribuer à la conception à l'échelle de l'entreprise.
• Posséder l'architecture de référence de la plateforme à travers AWS et Azure et définir les modèles que les équipes d'ingénierie construisent.
• Écrire et prototyper les parties difficiles vous-même, y compris les composants de plateforme greenfield et les preuves de concept.

• Excellent written communication. Design docs and RFCs are how this role scales
• A track record of architecture that actually got adopted across teams you did not own, earned through influence rather than authority
• Programming ability in Python, Go, or similar languages. You still write code, and you want to
• Deep Kubernetes experience, including cluster management, multi-cluster operations, and the platform abstractions built on top of it
• GitOps as your deployment model, with hands-on experience running ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent in production
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools, and a considered point of view on where they belong in an engineering workflow and where they do not
• You hold a long-term view, and you can tie a technical decision to what it does to cost, delivery, and the product
• A background in SRE or platform engineering, with real ownership of systems that other engineers built on top of
• 10+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure and platforms, including time as the recognized technical authority for a platform other engineering teams depended on
• Self-directed, with good judgment about which problems deserve your attention and which do not
• A working understanding of how regulatory and accreditation constraints shape architecture, including environments where continuous delivery does not apply
• Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale
• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience