Principal Platform Engineer (High Availability & Disaster Recovery)

The role

You will own the architectural strategy and technical execution for the platform's resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery lifecycle. You will design and build technical solutions to support platform availability and disaster response across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end design and technical execution of the global High Availability roadmap.
• Hand-on code, configure, and engineer active-active clustering, global load balancing, and real-time database replication.
• Build and champion the foundational Resiliency Engineering framework.
• Partner with and influence cross-functional engineering squads to embed self-healing mechanisms.
• Introduce and champion the first-ever Chaos Engineering program.
• Monitor infrastructure performance KPIs to identify potential bottlenecks.
• Mitigate shortage or overload risks to ensure compliance with Customer SLA requirements.

Required qualifications

• 8+ Years of HA Engineering across cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and on-premises environments.
• Proven ability to evangelize resiliency standards and influence cross-functional engineering teams.
• Hands-on expertise with real-time data replication, database clustering, and automated, zero-downtime traffic failover.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform or Ansible.
• Deep technical knowledge of Linux internals and container orchestration using Kubernetes (K8s).
• Hands-on experience managing complex hybrid networking topologies, including BGP routing, DNS management, Anycast, and CDNs.
• Ability to translate high-level uptime requirements into a technical roadmap and personally execute the engineering work.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting SaaS products.
• Experience with Incident Management, Post Mortems and related practices.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring best practices.
• Experience operating within one or more public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with configuration management, and infrastructure as code

About the company

Anaplan is a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through an AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform. Their customers include global companies such as Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer.