Principal Platform Engineer- GCP and Kubernetes is a must

About the role

We are seeking a seasoned Principal Platform Engineer to lead the evolution and performance of our Kubernetes-based production environment. In this role, you will drive reliability, scalability, and observability across mission-critical systems while working hands-on with Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, and modern infrastructure automation.

What you'll do

• 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

What you need

• 5–9 yrs of experience
• Kubernetes
• GCP
• Terraform
• Linux
• Python
• Networking
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Go
• Incident response
• Root cause analysis
• Network security