Principal Engineer – Cloud

Role Overview

• Defines and leads cloud engineering strategy, reference architectures, and technical standards for AWS-based infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Leads the design of highly scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-optimized cloud-native solutions using AWS services such as EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, EKS, IAM, VPC, KMS, and related services.
• Solves the most complex infrastructure and platform problems, including issues that span multiple systems, teams, and technology layers.
• Leads root cause analysis for significant incidents, drives durable corrective actions, and improves platform reliability, resiliency, and operational readiness.
• Establishes enterprise patterns for infrastructure as code, automation, and CI/CD practices using tools such as Terraform and related delivery tooling.
• Partners with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to design and maintain cloud controls that meet regulatory and policy requirements, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FFIEC, and other applicable standards.
• Provides technical leadership for internal and external audits by shaping control evidence approaches, addressing audit requests, and improving audit readiness.
• Architects disaster recovery, high availability, backup, and fault-tolerant strategies for critical cloud services and validates recovery approaches through testing and continuous improvement.
• Defines and enforces cloud security best practices including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, key management, secrets handling, and secure workload configuration.
• Drives cloud vulnerability management and configuration compliance strategies to ensure remediation, patching, and hardening practices meet service level expectations.
• Establishes cloud observability standards and leads implementation of logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting solutions to support complex transactional systems.
• Influences technical roadmaps, sequencing, and investment decisions across engineering teams to improve cloud adoption, operability, and platform consistency.
• Builds strong cross-functional relationships and serves as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders and senior stakeholders on cloud architecture, risk, tradeoffs, and long-term technical direction.
• Produces clear and durable technical documentation, standards, architecture artifacts, and guidance that enable scalable adoption across teams.
• Mentors engineers and technical leaders by raising engineering standards, sharing expertise, and guiding design and execution on high-impact initiatives.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Typically has 15 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles.
• Typically has 5 years of experience or demonstrated portfolio consistent with experience required of the role designing and operating solutions in AWS at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in AWS core services including compute, storage, networking, identity, container orchestration, and managed data services.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, container platforms, Linux environments, and distributed systems design.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical direction for large-scale, business-critical, cloud-based platforms or migrations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence engineers, architects, and leaders across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong experience establishing and scaling infrastructure as code practices using Terraform and related automation tooling.
• Strong knowledge of mature engineering practices including CI/CD, testing, secure engineering, operational readiness, and software delivery lifecycle disciplines.
• Proven experience implementing and governing security and compliance controls aligned with frameworks such as PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FFIEC.
• Strong experience designing and operationalizing observability solutions for complex, high-availability transactional environments.
• Strong judgment in evaluating technical tradeoffs involving reliability, security, cost, speed, and maintainability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• High level of customer responsiveness, strong documentation skills, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize effectively in ambiguous environments.
• Background and drug screen required.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• EC2
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Terraform

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
• And SO much more!