HSBC

Principal Engineer (Application Platform)

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16 days ago
Guangzhou, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Shape platform standardization, simplification, application rewrite, decommissioning, and run-the-bank efficiency initiatives.
  • Define and own reference architectures, technical designs, roadmaps, and golden paths for onboarding workloads to Kubernetes-as-a-Service.
  • Establish reusable engineering patterns, components, and reference implementations to improve delivery speed and consistency.
  • Set technical direction for Kubernetes-as-a-Service and related hosting products while removing architectural constraints across teams.
  • Create enforceable engineering guardrails, including secure-by-default templates, policy-as-code, and automated compliance evidence.
  • Act as the senior technical authority for early product onboarding and govern production readiness.
  • Partner with developer platform teams to improve developer experience through standard interfaces, tooling, and patterns.

Requirements

  • Significant experience operating as a Principal Engineer or senior technical authority in large-scale enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on platform engineering experience delivering shared services used by multiple product and application teams.
  • Deep Kubernetes and container-platform expertise, including multi-tenant design, cluster operations, security controls, and reliability considerations.
  • Experience establishing production readiness across resilience, observability, security, performance, and operability.
  • Experience guiding MVP onboarding or early-lifecycle platform adoption toward sustainable solutions and reduced rework.
  • Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions that balance target architecture with execution realities.
  • Ability to influence across organizational boundaries and manage complex dependencies and senior stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Experience partnering with developer platform teams to improve developer experience through standard interfaces, tooling, and patterns.

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Continuous professional development and opportunities to grow within the organization.
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace culture.

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About HSBC

10,000+ employees

HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.

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