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Principal Product Platform Engineer
Location
New Zealand
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Product Platform Engineer
Datacom
• You are the senior technical authority in a major platform domain. • You co-author the platform strategy. • You make the architectural decisions other teams depend on. • Collaborating with the team, you design and operate the shared services, identity foundations, developer tooling, and reliability standards that compound across every product team. • You drive simplification. The platform should get smaller, clearer and more automated over time. • Design reviews — running them, and being the second pair of eyes in reviews across the org. • 1:1s with the engineers you mentor, and with me. • Pairing with engineers in product squads on the harder technical problems. • Building! You will build a lot. • Writing — architecture decisions, design docs, agentic prompts that the whole team will use. Time with the team on the shared AI tooling that makes the whole engineering org faster. • Focus time is non-negotiable. We protect the calendar for deep work. Meetings have a purpose or they don't happen.
Job Requirements
- You've been a Principal, or senior-most-engineer-on-the-team for a while, or perhaps you're a solution architect who has been coding and are looking to get back into more demanding engineering on the hot path.
- You've made architectural calls at scale and you've lived with the consequences long enough to have opinions about what you'd do differently next time.
- You're deeply comfortable in a demanding application engineering space.
- You can help us move to domain driven design.
- You're very familiar with C# and dotnet.
- You probably know enough python and typescript to be dangerous, but if there's any language or framework that we decide we need, you'll quickly become the company expert and help others in their learning.
- You need to not only thrive in that space, you also need to help others feel at home there.
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