Principal Engineer: Scale Architecture & Strategy (Remote)
platacard
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Job summary
platacard is seeking a Principal Engineer to scale our engineering organization, reduce system complexity, and define a sustainable technical direction built on a mature platform. You will operate at the system level, align architectural decisions across teams, and address long-term technical risks, partnering with senior engineers, tech leads, and leadership to translate vision into durable standards.
If you enjoy shaping the technical future, tackling complex architectural challenges at scale,
Qualifications
- Experience in a large engineering organization (300+ engineers).
- Hands-on experience with complex distributed systems.
- Proven impact on architectural decisions beyond your own team.
- Experience with architectural mistakes, refactoring, and incidents.
- Strong system-level thinking and understanding of trade-offs.
- Clear communication and ability to work through disagreement.
Responsibilities
- Defining and maintaining company-wide architectural principles.
- Aligning technical decisions across teams and domains.
- Identifying and reducing architectural and organizational complexity.
- Leading RFCs, architecture reviews, and design discussions.
- Influencing technical decisions.
- Participating in major incident analysis and systemic problem solving.
Skills
Job description
platacard is seeking a Principal Engineer to scale our engineering organization, reduce system complexity, and define a sustainable technical direction built on a mature platform. You will operate at the system level, align architectural decisions across teams, and address long-term technical risks, partnering with senior engineers, tech leads, and leadership to translate vision into durable standards.
If you enjoy shaping the technical future, tackling complex architectural challenges at scale,
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