Principal Platform Engineer
Safeguard Global is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to lead a team of Platform Engineers and collaborate across Engineering, Security, Architecture, Data, and Product to shape and deliver key platform outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and hiring.
- Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, especially on AWS.
- Hands-on experience building developer platforms or self-service tooling.
- Deep knowledge of CI/CD, release engineering, and automated quality gates.
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and environment automation.
- Solid understanding of observability, reliability, and incident response practices.
- Strong communication skills—able to influence and align stakeholders across levels.
- Experience with modern service frameworks and Node.js/TypeScript platforms.
- Familiarity with AWS-native infrastructure tooling like SST and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of access control, identity integration, and fine-grained authorisation patterns.
- Experience enabling governed data usage for analytics and AI, including privacy and compliance controls.
- Practical experience with AI/LLM enablement, including governance, auditing, and cost management.
- A product-minded approach—optimising platforms for adoption, usability, and measurable outcomes.
- Track record of balancing high standards for security and reliability with pragmatic delivery.
Benefits
- Autonomy and Flexibility
- Generous leave
- Make a difference
- Corporate bonus/SIP
- International environment
- Human centered culture
- Learning
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