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About the Role

Altana is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to serve as the technical authority for the platform supporting its AI-powered product network. This senior individual contributor role involves driving architecture across organizational boundaries and setting the direction for a broad, multi-cloud infrastructure estate.

Responsibilities

Drive technical decisions and systems architecture across multiple organizations, contributing to company-wide design and proposing new forums.
Own the platform reference architecture across AWS and Azure, including commercial, regulated, and sovereign environments, and define build patterns for engineering teams.
Translate company strategy into area-level technical strategy, aligning with customer and product outcomes, and communicating options and tradeoffs to leadership.
Lead architecture for cross-cutting platform concerns such as ingress, API gateway, authentication, authorization, SSO, RBAC, and service-to-service communication.
Design the provisioning path for new environments and tenants to ensure repeatable setup processes.
Set standards for infrastructure as code, GitOps, Kubernetes configuration, and release engineering, driving adoption through RFCs, design reviews, and reference implementations.
Create and manage forums for senior engineer alignment, including design reviews, and establish rhythms for delivery and quality oversight.
Act as a cross-functional partner in planning, validating approaches, costing, and implementation options with product, implementation, and finance stakeholders.
Write and prototype complex components, including greenfield platform components and proofs of concept.
Partner with Security and Compliance to integrate accreditation requirements into the platform design.
Grow engineers through mentorship, pairing, and review, and raise the technical bar towards staff and principal level work.
Participate in interviewing and hiring, and represent Altana's technical work externally.

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure and platforms, including time as a recognized technical authority for a platform.
Background in SRE or platform engineering with ownership of systems used by other engineers.
Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale.
Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools.
Deep Kubernetes experience, including cluster management, multi-cluster operations, and platform abstractions.
Hands-on experience with GitOps, running ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent in production.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools, with a clear point of view on their application.
Working understanding of how regulatory and accreditation constraints shape architecture, including environments where continuous delivery does not apply.
Programming ability in Python, Go, or similar languages.
Track record of architecture adoption across teams through influence.
Long-term view, able to tie technical decisions to cost, delivery, and product impact.
Excellent written communication skills for design docs and RFCs.
Self-directed with good judgment on problem prioritization.
BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure
Platform Engineering
AWS
Azure
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
OpenTofu
Kubernetes
GitOps
ArgoCD
Flux
AI-assisted development
Agentic coding tools
Python
Go
Technical Architecture
Systems Architecture
SRE

Location

Remote (United States)
Brooklyn, NY
Washington, DC

Work Type

Fully remote
Hybrid

Experience Level

Principal
Senior Individual Contributor
10+ years

Education Level

BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Salary/Compensations

$250,000 - $295,000

Benefits

Competitive equity grants
Discretionary bonus or variable compensation plan
Flexible Time Off (FTO)
Paid Parental Leave (PPL) - 14 weeks for non-birthing parents, up to 26 weeks for birthing parents
Medical, vision, and dental benefits with generous employer contributions
100% employer-paid high deductible health plan for employees
Employer contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) option
Life, short- and long-term disability, and AD&D insurance coverage at no cost
401(k) Savings program
Commuter Benefits
Free premium subscription to Calm
Pet Insurance (Wishbone insurance and/or Total Pet vet service)
Employee Assistance Program
Dependent Care FSA

About the Company

Altana is the network for trusted trade, using AI-powered products to build a more resilient and secure global economy.
Our values are Trust, Resilience, Stewardship, and Courage.

Equal Opportunity

Altana is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type.