Principal Platform Engineer I

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Do you thrive on architecting and supporting mission-critical platforms that focuses on power reporting, analytics, and engineering across a large organization? At Spectrum, you'll lead the design and execution of innovative solutions with a focus on stability and rapid delivery, ensuring our platforms are reliable for millions of users. In this role, you will build the core infrastructure and platforms that advance Autonomous Network Operations at Spectrum-ingesting ubiquitous network telemetry, powering large-scale anomaly detection, and maintaining a graph-based digital twin that captures topology, dependencies, and service health. You will operationalize agentic systems that anticipate issues before they become customer-impacting, automatically triage and diagnose root causes, and generate safe, auditable remediation recommendations for our network engineering teams. Your work will define observability standards, SLOs, and automation guardrails, translating advanced analytics into resilient, production-grade capabilities that measurably reduce incidents and MTTR while shaping the engineering landscape at Spectrum.
How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead building and maintaining systems, supporting millions of active users, with hundreds of millions of daily API calls
• Design, implement, monitor, enhance, and troubleshoot the infrastructure and APIs supporting our family of applications
• Lead maintaining uptime and upholding SLAs for the platform, monitoring and troubleshooting of platform quality issues, identifying bottlenecks and bugs, and devising solutions to these problems, and implementing security and being an advocate for data governance in the company
• Develop the infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, target architectures and roadmaps
• Always keeps an eye towards reducing compute, bandwidth and storage costs
• Diagnose highly complex issues and evaluates, recommends, as well as executes the best resolution
• Ensure alignment to drive cross-platform consistency
• Architect, review, and harden the overall platform, minimizing application outages
• Deliver quality results to the platform engineering team

Working Conditions

• Office environment

What You'll Bring to Spectrum
Required Qualifications
Education

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Experience

• 8+ years of software development experience (JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python)
• 6+ years of exposure to SQL and non-relational databases
• 6+ years of cloud-based platform engineering role experience

Skills

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Extensive understanding of code versioning tools such as Git
• Extensive knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis)
• Extensive experience with building cloud-based, highly-automated, near real time data processing platforms
• Demonstrates in-depth problem-solving skills, especially in complex systems
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Extensive foundation in "bridging the divide" between software products and the infrastructure that runs it
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated in-depth analytical and troubleshooting abilities

Preferred Qualifications
Experience

• Experience developing and operating large scale (+10k nodes) graph systems
• Experience developing, testing, and maintaining agentic systems and platforms
• 3+ years leading or mentoring engineering teams in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment
• Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available systems handling hundreds of millions of daily API calls
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cost optimization and capacity planning
• Proven track record implementing observability at scale (metrics, tracing, logging) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or similar
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or similar)
• Strong background in security and data governance for cloud platforms, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance best practices
• Experience architecting event-driven and streaming data platforms (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub) for real-time analytics and reporting
• Prior success driving cross-team technical alignment and establishing platform standards, patterns, and reference architectures

Education

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field with a focus on distributed systems, data-intensive applications, or cloud architecture

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This job posting will remain open until 2026-03-03 03:00 PM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between
$110,800.00 and $196,400.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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