Principal Platform Engineer (MASTER) (Exp - 15+ Years)
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About the role
Job Title: Principal Platform Engineer
Number of Openings: 2
Location: LATAM -Remote LATAM -Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Argentina
Duration: 6 months
Principal Platform Engineer
Software Platforms
General Overview
AI is transforming how software is built, and this organization is investing in a shared platform designed to improve developer productivity, accelerate software delivery, and enable teams to bring new digital capabilities to market more quickly. The platform provides reusable services, standards, and tooling that allow product and engineering teams to focus on customer outcomes rather than rebuilding common foundations.
The title centers on platform engineering, but the work spans four competencies: cloud engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, and software engineering. Strong candidates are deep in at least one and capable across all four, and they stay hands-on in the code while helping steward the architecture and standards the platform depends on.
The Principal Platform Engineer is a senior individual contributor who builds and operates the platform's core services while helping steward its architecture and standards. This role takes major capabilities from design through production and ongoing operation, shapes the golden paths engineering teams adopt, and sets the technical bar through engineering, code review, and mentorship. The role partners closely with product management, architecture, and engineering teams across the organization.
Responsibilities
Build platform capability hands-on: design and ship core platform services end to end, from architecture through production and ongoing operation, as self-service capabilities that engineering teams adopt with minimal friction.
Steward the platform's architecture and standards, shaping the reference architecture, golden paths, and paved roads, and turning engineering standards into executable guidance through the Architecture Council.
Advance AI-first software delivery by building and evolving templates, pipelines, and golden paths that raise developer throughput, and help extend the platform into shared services that support new software offerings.
Own reliability, security, and cost for the services you build: define SLIs and SLOs, instrument observability, run incident response, and reduce toil through automation, with security and cost designed in from the start.
Set the technical bar and mentor: raise the level of platform and engineering teams through hands-on engineering, code review, and mentorship, and help build a connected engineering community.
Qualifications
Depth. 15+ years across platform disciplines, including platform engineering, cloud, DevOps, SRE, and software engineering, with deep hands-on experience building and operating services consumed by multiple teams or business units.
Platform engineering. Hands-on experience building internal developer platforms and shared services used by many teams or business units, including self-service capabilities, golden paths, API versioning and backward compatibility, adoption, and a platform-as-product mindset that treats engineers as customers and reduces cognitive load.
Cloud engineering. Strong, current, hands-on expertise on AWS (or Azure/GCP): containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), and practical command of networking, identity, security posture, and cost.
DevOps. Deep hands-on CI/CD and GitOps experience, building and operating delivery pipelines and environment automation, and improving the developer experience of shipping change safely and fast.
Site reliability engineering. Production-ownership experience: SLIs and SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and toil reduction through automation.
Software engineering. An excellent engineer with strong design sensibility (API contracts, clean abstractions, separation of concerns) who builds production services as durable products and stays hands-on in the code. Fluent in at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar), with sound build-vs-buy judgment.
Platform security. Hands-on cloud-native security expertise (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, secrets and workload identity, certificate lifecycle, policy-as-code, and secure software supply chain), with a track record of building secure-by-default platforms.
Architecture and standards stewardship. A track record of shaping reference architectures, golden paths, and engineering standards that other teams adopt, turning them into executable guidance rather than documentation.
AI-first delivery. Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar), able to define best practices and guardrails and to shape how these tools change delivery, code quality, and team structure.
Influence and communication. Exceptional written and verbal communication, able to build trust across organizational boundaries, align engineering teams, and mentor without relying on positional authority.
Job Type: Contract Contract length: 6 months
Pay: From R$280.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
Do you have fluent in at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar)
Do you have 15+ years across platform disciplines, including platform engineering, cloud, DevOps, SRE, and software engineering, with deep hands-on experience?
Are you comfortable with 6+ months contract possible to extend?
Work Location: Remote
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