Principal Autonomous Platform Engineer

STN, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

STN, Inc. is seeking a Principal (MTS 5) engineer to lead the Autonomous Platform that powers our AI-driven data centers.

You will ensure reliability, drive architectural decisions for dispatch, caching, and event streaming, and own cross-cutting concerns such as scaffolding, testing, and observability. You will rotate through Systems and SRE embeds, shipping durable backend services with Python/Java, and shaping deployment practices while maintaining safety and performance in production

Qualifications

• A long record of shipping and hardening complex distributed systems as a hands-on engineer at senior level.
• Experience taking a fast-built system to production dependability: idempotency, circuit breaking, backpressure, and degradation that is actually observable.
• Range across Python and Java, and comfort in backend services, data infrastructure, and deployment in the same week.
• Judgment about orchestration and scaling grounded in operating systems rather than reading about them - The instinct to reduce a novel problem to working code quickly.

Responsibilities

• Fix dispatch reliability first: circuit breakers, correct retry semantics, health-aware routing, and error handling that surfaces failures
• Add the caching layer, then the event streaming backbone
• Own the orchestration decision, whether to stay as-is, move to Kubernetes, or something between, and then execute it
• Introduce infrastructure-as-code and real deployment practice - Refactor toward per-session isolation so concurrent agent runs are safe
• Own cross-cutting concerns: service scaffolding standards, testing strategy, CI, and observability of our own platform
• Rotate through Systems and SRE embeds

Skills

Distributed systems

Senior engineer

Python

Java

Backend services

Data infrastructure

Deployment

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

STN, Inc. is seeking a Principal (MTS 5) engineer to lead the Autonomous Platform that powers our AI-driven data centers.

You will ensure reliability, drive architectural decisions for dispatch, caching, and event streaming, and own cross-cutting concerns such as scaffolding, testing, and observability. You will rotate through Systems and SRE embeds, shipping durable backend services with Python/Java, and shaping deployment practices while maintaining safety and performance in production