Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - Reliability & Scale

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits by company

Generous PTO

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Hybrid work schedules

Career development

Wellness programs

Job summary

Roper Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and advance cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery.

You will partner across Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, and architecture forums to modernize legacy systems and strengthen reliability practices. You will bring hands-on depth in AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, observability, and delivery tooling, while mentoring engineers and raising technical standards for

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating mission-critical platforms across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, or software engineering.
• Principal-level architecture judgment across scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Advanced AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, messaging, data, and observability services.
• Deep hands-on capability with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps practices, ArgoCD and associated tooling, deployment automation, source control, and production scripting.
• Comfort contributing to cross-functional architecture forums, shaping future platform investments through strong technical perspectives and collaborative influence.
• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, set durable standards, and strengthen a high-accountability platform engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for secure, resilient, scalable cloud platform services that improve developer productivity and customer outcomes.
• Lead modernization of legacy infrastructure and help guide application developers from legacy software designs toward modern, service-based deployments through collaboration and coordination.
• Establish platform reliability practices, including SLOs, observability, operational readiness, incident response, and continuous KPI improvement.
• Raise delivery standards through safer deployments, stronger security controls, robust data protection, and disciplined asset management.
• Improve developer experience by building effective tooling, feedback loops, and self-service capabilities that significantly increase engineering productivity.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture, standards, and execution across teams through principal-level technical leadership.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud architecture

AWS expertise

Kubernetes & GitOps

CI/CD & IaC

Mentoring engineers

Tools

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Roper Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and advance cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery.

You will partner across Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, and architecture forums to modernize legacy systems and strengthen reliability practices. You will bring hands-on depth in AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, observability, and delivery tooling, while mentoring engineers and raising technical standards for