Principal Platform Engineer

The role

You will define and advance cloud platform capabilities to enable secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery. You will partner across engineering teams to modernize legacy systems, improve developer experience, and shape platform investments.

What you will do

• Define the technical vision for secure, resilient, scalable cloud platform services.
• Lead modernization of legacy infrastructure.
• Guide application developers from legacy software designs toward modern, service-based deployments.
• Establish platform reliability practices including SLOs, observability, and incident response.
• Raise delivery standards through safer deployments, security controls, and data protection.
• Improve developer experience by building effective tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture, standards, and execution across teams.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• 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™

About the company

CentralReach is a provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. The Platform Engineering group builds the cloud platform, data infrastructure, observability systems, automation, and reliability services that power their products.