Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

About the role

Drives cross-group platform initiatives (e.g., identity, config, API gateways) with significant impact on reliability, performance, and compliance across the group. Anticipates and resolves ambiguous distributed-systems problems; sets compatibility and deprecation strategies to minimize downstream risk.

What you'll do

• Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance
• Own cross-group programs (e.g., identity, config, API gateway standards) with measurable reliability/performance impact
• Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk
• Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements

What you need

• Structural design
• Test automation
• Prototyping