Principal Platform Engineer

● Platform Architecture:

● Lead the architectural design and hands-on implementation of our transition from a monolithic to a microservices-based architecture

● Develop a comprehensive strategy to incrementally decompose the monolith while ensuring business continuity

● Identify and prioritize services for extraction based on business value, scalability needs, and technical considerations

● Mentor and guide the engineering team through the challenges of distributed systems development Requirements

● Hands-on experience building and operating microservices at scale

● 10yrs+ software development experience with at least 5 years architecting highly scalable SaaS applications

● Expertise in Java and at least one dynamic language (Python, Ruby)

● Experience building cloud native, containerized applications running in Kubernetes on AWS, GCP or Azure ● Strong communication and influencing skills to ensure teams are working toward shared goals