Principal Cloud Platform Engineer
- Renton, United States
- Lead/Staff
- Posted
Responsibilities
Cloud Governance
- Define and enforce policy-as-code standards (tagging, naming, encryption, network segmentation, access boundaries) across cloud accounts/subscriptions
- Establish guardrails using tools such as OPA, Sentinel, AWS Config/Service Control Policies to report on and prevent drift from approved patterns
- Partner closely with Security/IAM to deliver least-privilege enforcement and access-control requirements directly in our self-service capabilities while ensuring compliance and auditability.
- Embed cost governance and reporting (budgets, anomaly detection, showback/chargeback) into provisioning workflows
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Drive the organization's Infrastructure-as-Code standards (e.g., Terraform/Terraform Cloud, Pulumi)
- Establish and maintain reusable, versioned modules and contribution standards that embed governance requirements by default.
- Automate environment provisioning, drift detection/remediation, and lifecycle management so policy compliance doesn't depend on manual review
- Stay ahead of AI-native tooling and bring forward practical opportunities balancing risk, fit, value, measurability, and alignment to company goals.
Platform & Developer Enablement
- Develop golden paths for infrastructure provisioning and service deployment that make the guided path the easiest path
- Partner on developer platform tooling and integrations (CI/CD, container registries, managed data services, observability) where they intersect with governance and automation.
Requirements
- 8+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering, including experience operating at a principal or staff level (setting direction, not just implementing)
- Deep experience with major Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), ideally across more than one
- Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Pulumi) at scale, including module design and state/workspace management
- Experience with cloud cost management/FinOps practices and tooling
What you'll bring
Experience & Skills
- Direct experience implementing policy-as-code and cloud governance frameworks
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms, container registries, and observability tooling as consumers of the standards you build
- Exposure to applying AI tooling to infrastructure problems (policy review, anomaly detection, automation) is a plus
Collaboration & Communication
Ability to influence across platform, security, FinOps, and product engineering teams without direct authority
Strong documentation and communication skills; able to make the case for standards to both engineers and leadership
Experience mentoring engineers and setting technical direction beyond your own immediate team
Experience with platform advocacy, working with partners to understand infrastructure needs in collaboration with Product.
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Pay Range
- $172,600
- $259,000 USD
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