Principal Engineer, Platform

Traild; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote options

Global team

Exponential growth

World-class culture

Job summary

Traild is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineering Lead in the United States to shape the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms at the heart of our product portfolio. You will steer a small team, own GCP/AWS infrastructure, and drive platform initiatives across the organization.

You will define strategy, scale engineering talent, and champion IaC, CI/CD, observability, and FinOps while delivering reliable, cost-aware solutions at pace.

Qualifications

• Must have led a small engineering team and stayed hands-on.
• Deep production-scale cloud infrastructure experience (GCP/AWS).
• Able to define and defend platform direction and roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for Platform and present it to dependent teams.
• Own reliability, performance and cost of Traild’s GCP footprint, incl. networking, compute, storage and IaC.
• Improve developer experience: CI/CD pipelines, tooling, observability, and reducing friction for engineers.
• Remain hands-on as a working team member, not just a manager.
• Maintain high technical standards through reviews and exemplars.
• Grow and support a team of ~5 engineers, including hiring as needed.
• Own operational health and incident response for foundational services.

Skills

Cloud infra

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

FinOps

People mgmt

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Traild: Who are we?

Traildis a high-growth SaaS company redefining how finance teamsoperate, combining AI, automation, and payments infrastructure to power the future of B2B finance.

Every year, businesses lose billions to fraud, errors, and mistakes.Traildexists to solve this at scale, helping finance teams move faster, stay in control, andoperatewith confidence.

With rapid customer growth, global expansion across APAC, North America and EMEA, and continued investment in product innovation, we are at a defining stage of our journey.

This is an opportunity to help shape the next category leader in finance automation,controland security, building technology that transforms how businesses manage, move, and protect money. At the core of this is a powerful AI-driven platform, enabling finance teams to deploy intelligent agents that do the work, surface risk in real time, and continuously improve how financial operations run.

Traildis building the infrastructure behind modern finance,protectingand powering meaningful volumes of the world’s B2B transactions.

Ifyou’reexcited by high growth, real ownership, and building something that matters,Traildis the place to do the most impactful work of your career.

Hear howTraildcustomers speak about ushere.

**The Role: Want to be a part of our exciting growth journey?**

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to join our Platform Engineering team, where you will set the direction for the cloud infrastructure and developer platforms that every product at Traild is built on.

You will lead a small team of platform engineers while staying close to the code, owning our GCP infrastructure, networking, compute and storage, CI/CD, observability, infrastructure-as-code, developer experience and FinOps.

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, strong technical judgement to independently shape strategy and direction, and a genuine track record of growing engineers.

Platform Engineering sits at the centre of our technology organisation. When Platform works well, every other engineering team ships faster and more safely. When it does not, everyone feels it.

This is a small team of three, growing to around five. Platform roadmap is yours to define. You define what Platform invests in, what it automates, what it stops doing, and you make that case to the rest of engineering and to the executive team.

This role spans both the architecture and the people, and it’s built that way on purpose. You’ll sit in design reviews and shape the outcome, pick up a hard problem yourself when it counts, and still show up for five engineers as their manager when it matters. If both halves appeal to you, this is the right role. If you want one and not the other, it is not.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction and roadmap for Platform and set the case for it directly to the teams who depend on you.
• Own the reliability, performance and cost of Traild’s GCP footprint, including networking, compute, storage and the infrastructure-as-code that describes it.
• Improve the developer experience: CI/CD pipelines, build and deploy tooling, observability, and the day-to-day friction that slows other engineers down.
• Stay hands-on as a working member of the team, rather than an occasional contributor.
• Hold the technical bar through design review, code review, and the standards you set by example.
• Grow and support around five engineers, including hiring as the team expands.
• Own operational health and incident response for the foundations the whole product runs on.

Who You Are

• You have led a small engineering team, or been the most senior engineer on one, and you have stayed technical throughout.
• You have deep experience with cloud infrastructure at production scale, on GCP or AWS. We care more about depth than about which logo is on it.
• You are fluent in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and observability, and you have opinions about what good looks like that you can defend.
• You are passionate about platform as a product and can set platform direction: work out what matters, sequence it, and take other people with you.
• You have grown engineers before, formally or informally, and you understand why and how people learn.
• You are a strong communicator who can build trust with senior stakeholders and make technical trade-offs legible to people
• who are not engineers.
• You ship fast and you ship safely.
• Strong collaborator with an attitude embracing growth, hands-on execution, adaptability, and the scale-up spirit.

The Perks of Working atTraild

• Flexibility: we offer a range of remote, hybrid and flexible working options.
• Global team: we are growing across APAC, NA and EMEA and have team all across the world.
• We are growing at an exponentialrate,this is an opportunity to get involved with a truerocketshipwith all the excitement and opportunities that comes with it
• Our team genuinely loves working atTraild: oureNPSscore is 78, where anything above 50 is considered world-class.

Please note that the final applicants for this job will be asked to consent in writing to a police check / criminal background check to the extentpermittedby law in yourjurisdictionof employment.Please note thatTraildis an E-Verify employer.