Principal Platform & Reliability Engineer

SkillfloTalent; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 2,676,182,000 - 3,746,655,000; Full time

Job summary

SkillfloTalent is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the platform and reliability function during a critical growth phase. You will lead architectural decisions, incident response, and raise the bar for how customer-facing production systems are built and operated.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern backend technologies. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure architectures.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production systems for customer-facing platforms.
• Direct experience scaling multi-tenant SaaS, infrastructure, real-time, or AI-enabled products.
• Experience in high-growth global tech companies or equivalent engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the architecture of a secure, scalable, multi-tenant SaaS platform through a growth phase.
• Own production reliability end-to-end, including incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Make sound architectural decisions under constraints of time and cost.
• Define and enforce strong authorization and isolation boundaries across the platform.
• Lead design and implementation of distributed systems components including queues, concurrency, state management, retries, idempotency, backpressure, consistency, and recovery.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, serverless systems, containers, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and production observability tooling.
• Coordinate zero-downtime migrations and releases across services.
• Contribute hands-on software engineering using TypeScript, Node.js, and modern backend systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, communicating architectural tradeoffs clearly.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant SaaS

Incident response

Architectural decisions

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps & CI/CD

Observability & tracing

Technical leadership

Communication

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

SkillfloTalent is seeking a Principal Engineer to own the platform and reliability function during a critical growth phase. You will lead architectural decisions, incident response, and raise the bar for how customer-facing production systems are built and operated.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and modern backend technologies. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to shape scalable, secure architectures.