What You'll Do - Design and build scalable platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to ship features reliably, securely, and quickly. - Create and maintain developer-facing tools and paved paths (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, observability stacks, secrets management). - Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps patterns to promote consistency, automation, and compliance across environments. - Collaborate with product, security, and compliance stakeholders to build platform services that meet SLAs and governance standards. - Drive efforts to standardize and simplify infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, Azure), enabling secure multi-cloud operation. - Lead incident response, reliability engineering, and observability improvements that ensure platform uptime and performance. - Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, guiding teams on infrastructure architecture, platform adoption, and best practices. - Define and execute on a strategic roadmap to evolve the internal platform in line with company growth and technology direction. Your Background - 15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years focused on platform engineering or cloud infrastructure at scale. - Proven success designing and operating internal developer platforms in AWS and/or Azure environments. - Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, including provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration, and multi-tenant design. - Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD), and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Spinnaker). - Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale. - Familiar with the CNCF landscape and how to leverage open-source tools to solve platform problems. - Passion for developer experience. You think about tooling, abstraction, reliability, and feedback loops as core parts of platform success. - Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing engineering culture at a large scale. - Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience. Nice to Have - Experience designing and operating Developer Platforms or building platform-as-a-service abstractions. - Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and associated design trade-offs. - Strong cost optimization and cloud governance expertise.
Job Type
Hybrid role
Skills required
CI/CD, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub
Location
Seattle
Salary
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Date Posted
July 8, 2025
Highspot is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to lead the design and development of their cloud-based infrastructure and developer platform. This role focuses on enhancing developer workflows and implementing modern infrastructure practices.