Lead Principal Systems Software Engineer

Be the senior technical engineer and hands-on architect for the Cloud Infrastructure and Services platform, spanning physical provisioning, virtualization, Kubernetes and platform services. Work as an individual contributor to design and implement reliability, observability and security improvements, collaborating with distributed teams on delivery, operational readiness and complex customer escalations.

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US: Hiring Range in USD from: $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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Key Responsibilities Define platform architecture and integration contracts across servers, switches, storage, KVM, Kubernetes and shared services; align technical roadmaps with product priorities.

Lead bare-metal and GPU rack provisioning, service hosting and lifecycle automation, including upgrades, backup and operational readiness.

Own observability and serviceability capabilities covering metrics, logs, audit events, support bundles, fault reporting and alerting.

Guide device-side security architecture, system hardening, certificate and secrets management, vulnerability remediation and FedRAMP related engineering.

Lead cross-layer incident investigations and develop reviewed AI-assisted operations capabilities, including MCP integrations and runbook automation, with appropriate access controls.

Own design documentation, code reviews and functional, integration and failure testing; improve observability, secure development and lifecycle compatibility.

Partner with support, operations, security and engineering teams to resolve customer issues, document recovery procedures and prevent recurrence.

Required Qualifications

Experience serving as a senior technical individual contributor in infrastructure engineering, with deep expertise in systems architecture, implementation reviews and technical incident resolution.

Deep understanding of on-premises cloud systems spanning compute, networking, storage, virtualization and Kubernetes.

Strong software engineering background in Java, Python or comparable languages, with distributed services and platform automation experience.

Experience designing observability, serviceability, production security and resilient lifecycle workflows for enterprise infrastructure.

Demonstrated delivery of complex infrastructure initiatives, clear technical communication and effective collaboration across distributed teams.

Relevant education in computer science, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Cloud Infrastructure and Services platform ownership; GPU provisioning; Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or Elasticsearch; MCP, RAG and on-premises AI platform evaluation.

Core Responsibilities

Plan and deliver high-impact technical work, assessing dependencies, design trade-offs, technical risk and operational requirements with engineering partners.

Mentor engineers through code reviews, design feedback and knowledge sharing; contribute technical expertise to interviews and onboarding.

Drive cross-functional problem solving and continuous improvement using evidence, customer feedback and agreed engineering metrics.

Success Measures

Deliver coherent platform releases with measurable reliability, security and serviceability impro