Principal Platform Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $155.1k - $241.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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CivicPlus

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2001

📋 Compliance

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

Compliance • Government • SaaS

CivicPlus is a leading provider of technology solutions for local governments, aimed at transforming the way municipalities operate and engage with their residents. With over 25 years of experience, CivicPlus offers a broad range of software solutions designed to automate processes, digitize services, and enhance civic experiences, all while ensuring compliance and accessibility. Their offerings include municipal websites, mass notification systems, social media archiving, 311 CRM system, and agenda and meeting management, among others. CivicPlus focuses on delivering a modern government experience, providing flexible, scalable, and customizable solutions to meet the complex needs of public sector operations. Their technology is trusted by over 10,000 local governments and is designed to improve communication, streamline workflows, and increase civic participation and satisfaction.

📋 Description

• Implement the multi-year technical vision for Platform Engineering and translate it into executable strategy with measurable milestones • Own engineering standards, architecture principles, and governance frameworks used by all engineers • Lead company-wide platform transformation programs, including cloud-native migration, zero-trust adoption, and developer-experience reimagination • Serve as the primary technical partner to the CTO, VP Engineering, and VP Platforms & Reliability Engineering on infrastructure and platform decisions • Represent CivicPlus in engineering conferences, cloud provider advisory boards, and open-source communities • Evaluate and prototype emerging technologies for potential adoption • Shape the hiring bar for the entire Platform Engineering function • Influence infrastructure, developer experience, and cloud maturity across the broader engineering organization

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience with sustained, demonstrated impact in platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud architecture at scale • Deep multi-cloud mastery (AWS and Azure), including design of large-scale, compliance-grade architectures • Proven track record of driving org-wide or industry-recognized technical initiatives • Experience advising at VP or CTO level on platform strategy • Exceptional technical and executive-level communication skills, written and verbal • History of building or significantly elevating a platform engineering function • Published technical writing, open-source contributions, or conference talks in platform or cloud engineering domains • Experience with SaaS platforms serving government or regulated industries (SOC 2, FedRAMP, GovRAMP, PCI-DSS, CJIS, or equivalent) • Background in platform strategy at a high-growth SaaS company (Series C+, IPO, or post-IPO) • Advisory board or cloud provider champion program participation • Multi-cloud mastery (AWS + Azure at organizational, strategy-level) • Platform engineering architecture (IDP, golden paths, developer experience) • Cloud governance and FinOps (organizational-level programs) • Security architecture (zero-trust, supply chain, compliance frameworks) • Kubernetes federation and large-scale cluster operations • Distributed systems principles • Org-wide observability and reliability strategy • AI-forward mindset with demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, and work quality • Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging AI tools for infrastructure automation and developer productivity • Applicants must be authorized to work in the US • CivicPlus is unable to provide visa sponsorship now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible Time Off • 401(k) plan