Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a must

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, scale, and enhance our Kubernetes production platform
• Improve the performance, reliability, and availability of production systems
• Ensure comprehensive observability across services, infrastructure, and applications (metrics, logs, traces, alerts)
• Diagnose and tune database and service performance across distributed systems
• Partner with Development teams to assess platform impact of new features and architectural changes
• Identify architecture bottlenecks and contribute to scalable, resilient technical solutions
• Collaborate with Support teams to build and maintain operational runbooks and improve incident response processes

Requirements:

• 5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience in production environments
• Strong expertise with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
• GCP cloud experience required; multi-cloud exposure is a plus
• Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows
• Strong understanding of container lifecycle management and deployments
• Programming experience in Go, Python, or a comparable language
• Experience with database performance optimization and tuning
• Solid knowledge of networking fundamentals and network-level troubleshooting

Education and Experience:

• At least 10+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience preferred
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred