Tango

Principal Platform Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$200k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve platform architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy.
  • Drive cloud modernization, migration, re-platforming, deployment standardization, scalability, and resilience improvements.
  • Establish reliability standards involving SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Improve monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks, and operational readiness to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents.
  • Lead technical architecture and operational-control work for FedRAMP and government cloud certification readiness.
  • Partner with Security and Compliance on identity, access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes.
  • Establish engineering standards, architecture reviews, coding and testing practices, CI/CD quality gates, and production-readiness expectations.
  • Create reusable platform patterns, templates, libraries, tooling, and golden paths.
  • Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders and influence decisions across teams.

Requirements

  • Strong working knowledge of Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, React, and Vue.js.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, and/or Azure and the ability to work deeply across architecture, performance, reliability, and operations.
  • Experience designing and operating resilient, scalable distributed systems for B2B SaaS.
  • Experience with global cloud systems, including multi-region architecture, disaster recovery, high availability, and data residency considerations.
  • Experience supporting FedRAMP or comparable government cloud certification efforts, or operating in similarly regulated environments.
  • Ability to influence without authority, align stakeholders, drive decisions, build consensus, and write clear design and architecture documents.
  • Demonstrated coaching and mentoring impact across engineering teams.
  • Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, platform tooling, service meshes, policy-as-code, internal platforms and shared services, identity and authentication, developer tooling, CI/CD platforms, and FinOps or cloud cost optimization at scale.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Flexible remote, hybrid, or in-office work arrangements.
  • Inclusive and collaborative workplace culture.
  • Base pay range of $200,000-$240,000.
  • Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer; the company does not sponsor employment-based visas at this time.
Tango

About Tango

501-1,000 employees

Tango builds a social live‑streaming mobile app where creators broadcast, chat with audiences, and earn through virtual gifts and in‑app purchases. The platform serves content creators and viewers seeking real‑time entertainment and community. Privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Tango reports over 400 million downloads and maintains global offices in Kyiv, Limassol, Warsaw, Dubai, and Tel Aviv.

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