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# Principal Platform Engineer

- **Company:** ALTANA
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $250,000.0 - $295,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** OpenTofu, Amazon Web Services, User Authentication, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Delivery, Software Design Documents, Python (Programming Language), Role-Based Access Control, Single Sign-On, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Api Gateway, Terraform
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=45d954cae1909278

## About the Role

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

## Description

* Drive technical decisions and systems architecture across multiple organizations, not only within Platform Engineering, and contribute to company-wide design through existing forums while proposing new ones where they are missing
 * Own the platform reference architecture across AWS and Azure and across our commercial, regulated, and sovereign environments, and define the patterns that engineering teams build against
 * Translate company strategy into area-level technical strategy, keep it aligned with customer and product outcomes, and communicate the options and tradeoffs upward so leadership can choose with a clear view of the consequences
 * Lead the architecture for cross-cutting platform concerns, including ingress and API gateway, authentication and authorization, SSO and RBAC, service-to-service communication, and the conventions that govern them
 * Design the provisioning path for new environments and tenants, so that standing up a region, an accredited environment, or a customer tenant is a repeatable process with a known shape and a known timeline
 * Set the standard for infrastructure as code, GitOps, Kubernetes configuration, and release engineering across the estate, including where AI-assisted development tooling belongs in platform work, and drive adoption through RFCs, design reviews, and reference implementations rather than mandate
 * Create and run the forums that get senior engineers aligned, including design review, and establish the rhythms that keep a broad view of delivery and quality across the area
 * Act as a cross-functional partner in planning, validating approaches, costing, and implementation options with product, implementation, and finance stakeholders before commitments are made
 * Write and prototype the hard parts yourself, including greenfield platform components and proofs of concept that de-risk a direction before a team commits to it
 * Partner with Security and Compliance so that accreditation requirements are a designed-in property of the platform instead of a per-environment effort
 * Grow the engineers around you through mentorship, pairing, and review, and raise the technical bar toward staff and principal level work
 * Interview and help us hire, including at senior and leadership levels, and represent Altana's technical work with customers, partners, and the wider industry