Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering
SingleStore22 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define cloud networking architecture and standards across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.
- Design and evolve routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, ingress and egress, DNS, VPN, private connectivity, and cloud-to-data-center networking.
- Lead technical direction for Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, bastions, and related private-access patterns.
- Establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, recovery procedures, and operational standards for critical network services.
- Diagnose and mitigate 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 enabling safe self-service for platform and engineering teams.
- Improve infrastructure change safety through automated validation, required review, observability, change logging, and rollback practices.
- Partner across Cloud Platform, Developer Platform, Systems Engineering, IT, InfoSec, and SRE on cross-domain architecture.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during U.S. business hours.
- Create architecture standards, decision records, runbooks, and operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and raise networking, infrastructure, and reliability expertise across the organization.
- Identify and resolve architectural and operational gaps beyond the immediate networking domain.
Requirements
- 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 and 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 experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure; cloud networking services; BGP and hybrid networking; private-access technologies; IPAM/DCIM platforms; Kubernetes networking; observability tools; IAM and identity technologies; policy-as-code; infrastructure guardrails; and large-scale hybrid-cloud environments.
Benefits
- The posting states that salary and total compensation and benefits vary based on permissible factors including skills, experience, and geographic location, but provides no specific benefits or compensation figures.
- The role provides senior technical coverage during U.S. business hours.
- SingleStore offers roles in a variety of locations across the United States and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, India, Ireland, and Ukraine.
Tech Stack
Categories
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About SingleStore
SingleStore builds SingleStoreDB, a distributed SQL database that supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same engine for data-intensive applications. It sells enterprise licenses and a managed cloud service to developers and companies needing low-latency analytics on operational data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has a majority investment from Vector Capital.