Principal Engineer / Technical Platform Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive the longterm technical architecture across multiple products
• Build and extract shared services and platform capabilities across systems
• Ensure scalability, performance, and security in a highly regulated (federal) environment
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align with frameworks such as FedRAMP and NIST
• Reduce system complexity and improve maintainability of the legacy platform
• Guide the AI product toward transparent, scalable, and productionready architecture
• Improve developer productivity through tooling, automation, and AI-assisted workflows
• Act as a trusted advisor to executive leadership on technical strategy and tradeoffs

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant time in startup or highgrowth environments
• Proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems
• Strong backend engineering expertise (APIs, data pipelines, microservices, or platform architecture)
• Experience working across both legacy systems and greenfield development
• Solid understanding of cloudnative architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience working in or alongside cybersecurity, compliance, or regulated environments
• Demonstrated ability to make and own highstakes architectural decisions
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders
• Willingness to be handson and deeply involved in implementation