Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering
Key Skills for This Role
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Your Experience:
- Deep experience designing and operating complex production cloud networks in at least one major cloud provider, with meaningful experience in a second.
- Strong knowledge of routing, subnetting, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, DNS, VPN, ingress/egress, and private connectivity.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex production network and infrastructure failures.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or comparable infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Experience building infrastructure automation using Python, Go, or a comparable programming language.
- Strong SRE experience including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery engineering, and reliability improvement.
- Experience operating Kubernetes or adjacent cloud-platform infrastructure.
- Experience designing safe infrastructure change and deployment practices.
- Ability to lead architecture decisions across multiple engineering organizations without formal authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documents, standards, runbooks, and incident reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, distribute technical knowledge, and influence technical direction at Principal level.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- AWS Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, or equivalent cloud-network technologies.
- GCP Cloud Router, Interconnect, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, or equivalent technologies.
- Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Private Link, or equivalent technologies.
- BGP and hybrid cloud/data-center networking.
- Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, or comparable private-access technologies.
- NetBox or other IPAM/DCIM platforms.
- Kubernetes CNI or advanced Kubernetes networking experience.
- Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Pingdom, or comparable observability tools.
- Experience with IAM and identity technologies such as Okta, Keycloak, FreeIPA, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JIT access, certificates, secrets management, or privileged-access systems.
- Experience building policy-as-code, infrastructure guardrails, or automated deployment controls.
- Experience in large multi-account, multi-project, hybrid-cloud, or enterprise-scale infrastructure environments.
- About us: SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.
- Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.
- T o all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
- SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. For candidates residing in California, please see our California Recruitment Privacy Notice. For candidates residing in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, please see our EEA, UK, and Swiss Recruitment Privacy Notice.
- Req ID: ENG00523
Responsibilities
- Define cloud networking architecture and standards across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.
- Design and evolve routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, ingress/egress, DNS, VPN, private connectivity, and cloud-to-data-center networking.
- Lead technical direction for private-access technologies such as Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, bastions, and related access patterns.
- Establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, recovery procedures, and operational standards for critical network services.
- Lead diagnosis and mitigation of significant networking, connectivity, and infrastructure incidents, and drive permanent remediation.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.
- Build reusable infrastructure patterns and automation that enable safe self-service for platform and engineering teams.
- Improve infrastructure change safety through automated validation, required review, observability, change logging, and rollback practices.
- Partner with Cloud Platform, Developer Platform, Systems Engineering, IT, InfoSec, and SRE teams on architecture that crosses networking, infrastructure, identity, security, and reliability domains.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during U.S. business hours.
- Create architecture standards, decision records, runbooks, and operational practices that reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
- Mentor engineers and raise networking, infrastructure, and reliability expertise across the organization.
- Identify architectural and operational gaps beyond the immediate networking domain and help drive them to resolution.
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