Principal Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define the platform vision and deliver incremental improvements across hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments.
• Lead high-impact platform projects from initial design through to full implementation.
• Mentor and elevate platform engineers to raise the technical bar and foster a culture of excellence.
• Drive technical decisions, engineering best practices, and standards for robust, scalable systems.
• Build and enhance self-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience and standardized workflows.
• Accelerate continuous delivery by streamlining CI/CD pipelines to minimize manual toil and boost velocity.
• Lead reliability and observability initiatives, including postmortems, SLO implementation, and resilience patterns.

Requirements

• 16–20+ years of experience in platform, cloud, or infrastructure engineering, including hybrid cloud and bare-metal environments.
• Proven track record of applying a product mindset to platform engineering to solve systemic issues.
• Strong background in CI/CD, automation, container orchestration, and infrastructure tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, ArgoCD, Terraform).
• Experience operating high-scale distributed applications and managing production systems end-to-end.
• Expertise in database technologies (SQL, NoSQL), Elasticsearch, caching layers, and large-scale data pipelines.
• Ability to apply enterprise-grade security and compliance practices while enabling rapid innovation.
• Experience working in both small startups and large, fast-moving enterprises.

About the Company

Conductor is the leading enterprise AEO platform. Today’s top enterprise brands use Conductor to grow authority and visibility in both AI and traditional search engines. From tracking visibility in LLMs to real-time monitoring of technical site health and scaled AI content creation, Conductor provides a single source of truth that fuels digital growth—all from one platform.