Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Ll Oefentherapie; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie in Santa Fe seeks a Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer to guide architecture of highly scalable distributed systems and mentor engineering teams. You will optimize performance for hyperscale workloads and define resilience, telemetry, and security standards across services.

You will drive IaC adoption, automated patching, and rollback strategies while overseeing incident response, root cause analyses, and operational readiness for enterprise-scale platforms.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing scalable distributed systems for hyperscale workloads.
• Proven ability to architect fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable platforms.
• Strong telemetry, KPIs, and SLO-aligned durability and availability standards.
• Experience with IaC, automated patching, updates, and rollback strategies.

Responsibilities

• Architect and mentor teams on highly scalable distributed architectures.
• Identify and remove performance bottlenecks for hyperscale workloads.
• Define resilience mechanisms, load shedding, throttling, rate limiting.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and operational readiness.
• Develop replication/synchronization strategies and advanced security controls.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Fault-tolerant systems

Scalability engineering

Observability

IaC

Incidents response

Automation

Replication strategies

Formal verification

Job description

The Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer mentors engineering teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. This role identifies and eliminates performance and scalability bottlenecks for hyperscale workloads, defines scalability requirements with stakeholders, and designs elastic, high-impact systems while driving innovation in data plane platforms.

The engineer architects and oversees fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems, optimizes resilience mechanisms such as load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting, and establishes SLO-aligned standards for durability and availability across dependent services. The role also defines KPIs and advanced telemetry, applies formal verification techniques for complex features, and develops robust replication and synchronization strategies.

Additionally, this position leads the resolution of complex production issues, establishes operational readiness and standard operating procedures, directs incident response and root cause analyses, architects advanced security controls, drives compliance and remediation efforts, and delivers enterprise-scale automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated patching, updates, and rollback strategies.