Principal Platform Engineer

🕒 September 30

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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CentralReach

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2010

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

💰 Private equity on 2018-03

Healthcare • Education

CentralReach is a software development company that specializes in providing technology solutions for Autism and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) care. Their platform supports a range of features including learning management, practice management, therapy scheduling, and data collection, aimed at improving the care and outcomes for individuals diagnosed with autism and related disabilities. CentralReach focuses on empowering both service providers and clients to achieve independence and better quality of life.

📋 Description

• Define the technical vision for secure, resilient, scalable cloud platform services that improve developer productivity and customer outcomes • Lead modernization of legacy infrastructure and guide application developers toward modern, service-based deployments • Establish platform reliability practices, including SLOs, observability, operational readiness, incident response, and continuous KPI improvement • Raise delivery standards through safer deployments, stronger security controls, robust data protection, and disciplined asset management • Improve developer experience by building tooling, feedback loops, and self-service capabilities that increase engineering productivity • Mentor engineers and influence architecture, standards, and execution across teams through principal-level technical leadership • Partner across Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, and architecture forums to modernize systems, strengthen reliability, and shape platform investments

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating mission-critical platforms across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, or software engineering • Principal-level architecture judgment across scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence • Advanced AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, messaging, data, and observability services • Deep hands-on capability with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps practices, ArgoCD and associated tooling, deployment automation, source control, and production scripting • Comfort contributing to cross-functional architecture forums and shaping future platform investments through strong technical perspectives and collaborative influence • Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, set durable standards, and strengthen a high-accountability platform engineering culture

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Comprehensive health benefits • Generous PTO • 401(k) matching • Paid parental leave • Hybrid work schedules • Career development support • Wellness programs • Opportunities to give back through CR Cares™ community engagement initiative