Principal Platform Engineer

The role

You will be the technical leader of the platform that ingests, processes, and serves satellite imagery. You will set architecture and engineering standards, run the roadmap, and lead the platform and data engineering team.

What you will do

• Meet customers regularly to turn feedback into roadmap priorities
• Shorten the path from customer feedback to production
• Own the platform architecture including imagery ingest, data, and AI agent infrastructure
• Oversee the engineering design and architecture of agentic products
• Run an AI-native development lifecycle
• Make technical decisions that balance customer needs and business costs
• Raise engineering standards for design reviews, testing, and reliability
• Lead and grow the platform and data engineering team

Required qualifications

• 10+ years building production software
• 3+ years as a staff or principal engineer or technical lead on a platform team
• Regular, direct work with customers
• Record of turning customer learning into shipped product quickly
• Experience shaping products, APIs or developer experiences with high usability
• Hands-on experience shipping LLM, retrieval or agent systems as products, with evaluation in production
• Evidence of using AI tools to make a team's development lifecycle faster
• Experience making build decisions with a business trade-off
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed data pipelines and API design

Nice to have

• Experience with geospatial data, remote sensing or imagery processing
• Experience with enterprise identity, multi-tenant SaaS or marketplace platforms

Benefits

• Stock options
• Health benefits
• Flexible hybrid work

About the company

SkyWatch provides a platform that aggregates and provides access to satellite data for businesses, researchers, and governments. The company values simplicity, dependability, and empathy.