Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)

We are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical leader within our DevOps organization.

This role partners closely with other senior technical leaders to translate strategic platform direction into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly infrastructure capabilities. The Principal will lead the technical execution of platform initiatives, elevate engineering standards, and drive measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery velocity.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design and implement platform capabilities across our serverless and Kubernetes environments, guide senior engineers, and influence engineering practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities and Outputs:

Technical Leadership & Execution

• Partner with Architects to implement and operationalize platform strategy.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of platform capabilities across:
  • Serverless-first AWS workloads
  • Kubernetes (EKS) environments
• Break down large architectural initiatives into executable milestones.
• Guide platform implementation patterns and reusable modules.

Reliability & Operational Improvement

• Drive systemic improvements that reduce incident frequency and severity.
• Strengthen observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Support adoption of Product focused SRE frameworks across teams.
• Improve deployment safety, change management, and incident response practices.

Platform Evolution

• Improve CI/CD automation and deployment workflows.
• Contribute to Kubernetes cluster design evolution and networking patterns.
• Improve logging pipelines, cost visibility, tagging standards, and platform guardrails.
• Support platform modernization efforts with a focus on simplification and predictability.

Engineering Enablement

• Improve developer experience across platform offerings.
• Establish clear golden paths for deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to DORA metric visibility and engineering performance improvements.
• Support responsible AI tooling adoption in our workflows.

Influence & Mentorship

• Mentor senior engineers and elevate platform engineering standards.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews.
• Make tradeoffs visible and articulate technical risk clearly.
• Reinforce disciplined intake and prioritization practices to protect strategic capacity.

Experience:

• 8–12+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Experience operating serverless and Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Proven track record improving reliability and reducing operational toil.
• Experience collaborating closely with multiple engineering teams.

Technical Expertise:

• Strong AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC).
• Strong Kubernetes/EKS experience including networking and observability.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Strong CI/CD pipeline design experience.
• Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering.

Nice to Have:

• Experience implementing DORA metrics.
• Experience supporting SRE models and incident reduction initiatives.
• Experience improving developer onboarding and platform UX.
• Experience writing tools in scripting languages such as Python, Node.js, or similar.
• Experience evaluating AI-assisted development tooling safely.

Tii Elements:

• Resourcefulness
• Collaboration & Influencing
• Quality Focus