[Remote] Principal Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tango Analytics is dedicated to helping businesses make smarter decisions through innovative technology and insightful data. They are seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead platform and cloud architecture initiatives, establish reliability standards, and enable government cloud readiness while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own platform and cloud architecture
• Define and evolve Tango’s platform architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy
• Drive cloud modernization initiatives (migration, re-platforming, standardization of deployment patterns, scalability and resilience improvements)
• Create reference architectures and guardrails that enable autonomy while improving consistency and operational quality
• Set reliability standards and practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response and postmortems)
• Improve observability and operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks) to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents
• Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and lead cross-team initiatives to address them
• Provide technical leadership for architectures and operational controls needed for FedRAMP / government cloud certification readiness
• Partner with Security/Compliance to translate controls into engineering requirements and pragmatic implementation plans
• Lead technical reviews for identity, access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes in regulated environments
• Establish and evangelize best practices: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness
• Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders; coach teams through complex designs and tradeoffs
• Create reusable patterns and 'golden paths' (templates, libraries, tooling) that make the right way the easy way

Skills

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer
• We cannot sponsor employment-based visas at this time
• Strong working knowledge across multiple stacks, including Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, and modern frontend frameworks (React and Vue.js)
• Handson cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, with ability to dive deep on architecture, performance, reliability, and operations
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems for B2B SaaS with a strong focus on resiliency, scalability, and cost/performance tradeoffs
• Experience with global cloud systems (multi-region, disaster recovery, high availability, data residency considerations)
• Experience supporting FedRAMP and/or comparable government cloud certification efforts (e.g., Moderate/High) or operating within similarly regulated environments
• Comfort partnering with Security/Compliance while maintaining engineering velocity and strong developer experience
• Proven ability to influence without authority—aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and building consensus across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and architectural proposals
• A coaching mindset with demonstrated impact mentoring and developing engineers across teams
• Kubernetes and cloud-native operations experience (platform tooling, service meshes, policy-as-code)
• Experience building internal platforms/shared services (identity/auth, developer tooling, CI/CD platforms)
• FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience at scale

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• A 401(k) plan with company match
• Generous paid time off to support your well-being
• Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance

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