首席平台工程师
Principal Platform Engineer
首席平台工程师
软件平台
职位概述
人工智能正在降低构建软件的成本，Ralliant希望成为引领者而非追随者。我们正在打造一个共享平台，重新定义我们的运营公司如何创建和发布软件，从以人工智能为先的开发者生产力方法开始。在此基础上，平台逐步发展为共享服务，使运营公司能够更快地推出新的软件产品并实现商业化。运营公司拥有自己的产品、客户和路线图，而平台则提供它们所依赖的共同基础，而不是重复建设。
该职位的核心是平台工程，但工作内容涵盖四个能力领域：云工程、DevOps、站点可靠性工程和软件工程。优秀的候选人至少在其中一个领域有深入经验，并且能够胜任所有四个领域，同时保持在代码中的实际操作，帮助维护平台所依赖的架构和标准。
首席平台工程师是一个高级个人贡献者，负责构建和运营平台的核心服务，同时帮助维护其架构和标准。负责人从设计到生产及持续运营，推动主要功能的实现，塑造运营公司采用的黄金路径，并通过工程实践、代码审查和指导来设定技术标准。该职位向首席软件平台官汇报，并与技术产品经理总监以及各运营公司的工程团队紧密合作。
职责
- 亲自构建平台能力：从架构到生产及持续运营，端到端地设计和交付核心平台服务，作为自助式能力，让运营公司工程师以最小的摩擦进行采用。
- 维护平台的架构和标准，塑造参考架构、黄金路径和已铺好的道路，并通过架构委员会将工程标准转化为可执行的指导。
- 推进以人工智能为先的软件交付，通过构建和演进模板、流程和黄金路径，提高开发者吞吐量，并帮助将平台扩展到支持新软件产品的共享服务。
- 对你构建的服务的可靠性、安全性和成本负责：定义SLI和SLO，实现可观测性，开展事件响应，并通过自动化减少重复劳动，从一开始就将安全性和成本纳入设计中。
- 设定技术标准并进行指导
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Principal Platform Engineer
Software Platforms
General Overview
AI is collapsing the cost of building software, and Ralliant intends to lead, not follow. We're building a shared platform that reinvents how our operating companies create and ship software, starting with an AI-first approach to developer productivity. From there, the platform grows into shared services that let operating companies bring new software offerings to market and commercialize them more quickly. Operating companies own their products, customers, and roadmaps, while the platform provides the common foundation they build on rather than rebuild.
The title centers on platform engineering, but the work spans four competencies: cloud engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, and software engineering. Strong candidates are deep in at least one and capable across all four, and they stay hands-on in the code while helping steward the architecture and standards the platform depends on.
The Principal Platform Engineer is a senior individual contributor who builds and operates the platform's core services while helping steward its architecture and standards. Principals take major capabilities from design through production and ongoing operation, shape the golden paths operating companies adopt, and set the technical bar through engineering, code review, and mentorship. The role reports to the Chief Software Platform Officer and partners closely with the Director of Technical Product Management and engineering teams across the operating companies.
Responsibilities
- Build platform capability hands-on: design and ship core platform services end to end, from architecture through production and ongoing operation, as self-service capabilities that operating-company engineers adopt with minimal friction.
- Steward the platform's architecture and standards, shaping the reference architecture, golden paths, and paved roads, and turning engineering standards into executable guidance through the Architecture Council.
- Advance AI-first software delivery by building and evolving the templates, pipelines, and golden paths that raise developer throughput, and help extend the platform into shared services that support new software offerings.
- Own reliability, security, and cost for the services you build: define SLIs and SLOs, instrument observability, run incident response, and reduce toil through automation, with security and cost designed in from the start.
- Set the technical bar and mentor: raise the level of platform and operating-company engineers through hands-on engineering, code review, and mentorship, and help build a connected engineering community across the portfolio.
Qualifications
- Depth. 15+ years across the platform disciplines (platform engineering, cloud, DevOps, SRE, and software engineering), including deep hands-on experience building and operating services consumed by multiple teams or business units.
- Platform engineering. Hands-on experience building internal developer platforms and shared services used by many teams or business units (self-service, golden paths, API versioning and backward compatibility, adoption), with a platform-as-product mindset that treats engineers as customers and reduces their cognitive load.
- Cloud engineering. Strong, current, hands-on expertise on AWS (or Azure/GCP): containers and Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), and practical command of networking, identity, security posture, and cost.
- DevOps. Deep hands-on CI/CD and GitOps experience, building and operating delivery pipelines and environment automation, and improving the developer experience of shipping change safely and fast.
- Site reliability engineering. Production-ownership experience: SLIs and SLOs, error budgets, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and toil reduction through automation.
- Software engineering. An excellent engineer with strong design sensibility (API contracts, clean abstractions, separation of concerns) who builds production services as durable products and stays hands-on in the code. Fluent in at least one modern backend language (Go, Python, TypeScript, or similar), with sound build-vs-buy judgment.
- Platform security. Hands-on cloud-native security expertise (IAM, OAuth/OIDC, secrets and workload identity, certificate lifecycle, policy-as-code, and secure software supply chain), with a track record of building secure-by-default platforms.
- Architecture and standards stewardship. A track record of shaping reference architectures, golden paths, and engineering standards that other teams adopt, turning them into executable guidance rather than documentation.
- AI-first delivery. Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar), able to define best practices and guardrails and to shape how these tools change delivery, code quality, and team structure.
- Influence and communication. Exceptional written and verbal communication, able to build trust across organizational boundaries, align engineers across operating companies, and mentor without relying on positional authority.
Originally posted on Himalayas