Principal Platform Engineer

What this role involves

First Resonance is hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to lead platform architecture, drive reliability and performance, and build scalable infrastructure. The role involves owning backend architecture, improving observability and deployment safety, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with high-availability systems and cross-team initiatives.

Skills this posting asks for

• backend
• platform
• distributed systems
• databases
• caching
• queues
• apis
• cloud infrastructure
• observability
• monitoring
• alerting
• incident response
• postmortems
• sre
• reliability engineering
• performance engineering
• database scalability
• multi-tenant architectures
• zero-downtime migrations
• ci/cd
• tooling
• deployment safety
• rollback strategies
• scalable primitives

Requirements

• 8 years of experience
• Level: principal

From the employer’s posting

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