Hybrid Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms

at Saviynt

• Job title: Principal Engineer, Cloud Platforms
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana, Kafka, Kubernetes, MySQL, Prometheus, Python, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer defining and driving the reliability strategy for Saviynt's critical SaaS platform. Shaping infrastructure design and operations for reliability at scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the reliability strategy for our SaaS platform
• Shape how Saviynt designs, operates, and measures reliability at scale
• Instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining the shared infrastructure services and platforms
• Creating reusable, reliable, and scalable solutions that abstract away complexity
• Design and build core platform components and shared infrastructure services
• Architect, implement, and manage highly available and scalable Kubernetes platforms as a service
• Develop robust, internal-facing tools and automation for infrastructure provisioning and management primarily using Go (Golang)
• Architect and optimize foundational solutions within Cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Design and implement shared Event-Driven Architecture components and messaging platforms
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab CI and ArgoCD) as a service
• Design and build resilient Distributed Systems components
• Manage and optimize shared infrastructure across Multi-Region Cloud Environments
• Establish and enhance centralized Observability and Monitoring platforms and tools
• Define and implement clear, well-documented RESTful API designs
• Implement and manage Service Mesh capabilities
• Design, implement, and optimize highly available Relational Database services
• Collaborate closely with product development teams
• Participate in on-call rotations to support the critical shared infrastructure

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in an Infrastructure Development, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering role, with a strong focus on building tools and services for other engineers
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes in production environments, particularly in providing it as a platform(i.e single tenant and multi-tenant deployment architectures)
• Strong programming skills in Go (Golang) and Python, with experience building robust, maintainable backend services and automation
• Extensive hands-on experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure); multi-cloud experience is a strong plus, especially in building abstractions over them
• Proven experience designing and implementing Event-Driven Architecture and message queuing systems (e.g., Kafka, RMQ, NATS) as shared services
• Solid understanding and practical experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (especially GitLab CI) and experience establishing automated delivery processes for other teams
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating Distributed Systems, with an understanding of patterns for creating reliable, shared components
• Familiarity with Multi-Region Cloud Environments and strategies for building globally distributed and highly available platform
• Proficiency in establishing and utilizing comprehensive Observability and Monitoring platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog) for shared infrastructure
• Strong experience with RESTful API design principles and building well-documented, consumable APIs
• Knowledge of Service Mesh concepts and practical experience with solutions like Istio in a platform context
• Hands-on experience with Relational Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgresSQL), ideally in managing them as a service
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A strong customer-centric mindset, treating internal development teams as your primary customers
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities