Principal Platform Engineer

Centralreach-8; Holmdel Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Paid parental leave

Hybrid work schedules

Wellness programs

Job summary

CentralReach is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and advance cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery. You will partner with Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, and architecture forums to modernize legacy systems and strengthen reliability practices.

You will mentor engineers and raise technical standards for services built, deployed, and operated, leveraging AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, observability, and automation to

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating mission-critical platforms.
• Principal-level architecture judgment across scalability, reliability, security, observability.
• Advanced AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, messaging, data, observability.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, deployment automation.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture and standards.
• Strong collaboration across platform, software engineering, and architecture forums.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision for secure, resilient cloud platform services.
• Lead modernization of legacy infrastructure toward service-based deployments.
• Establish platform reliability practices including SLOs and incident response.
• Improve delivery with safer deployments and stronger security controls.
• Enhance developer experience with tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards.

Skills

10+ years experience

Platform engineering leadership

AWS expertise

CI/CD & IaC

Kubernetes & GitOps

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring engineers

Tools

ArgoCD

Observability tooling

Automation tooling

Job description

CentralReach is a leading provider of autism and IDD care software for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), multidisciplinary therapy, and special education. Trusted by more than 200,000 users, we enable therapy providers, educators, and employers to scale the way they deliver ABA and related therapies with innovative technology, market-leading industry expertise, and world-class customer satisfaction.

CentralReach’s Platform Engineering group builds the cloud platform, data infrastructure, observability systems, automation, and reliability services that power products used every day by clinicians, educators, employers, and care teams. We focus on creating resilient, secure, high-performing systems that help our customers deliver better outcomes for the people they serve.

This is an opportunity to do meaningful work on systems that matter, collaborate with talented engineering teams, and help shape the reliability practices behind a mission-driven healthcare technology platform.

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will define and advance the 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, strengthen reliability practices, improve developer experience, and shape future platform investments. You will bring hands-on depth in AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, ArgoCD, observability, automation, and delivery tooling while mentoring engineers and raising the technical standards for how services are built, deployed, and operated.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• 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.

Base Salary Range

$200,000 - $215,000 USD

Backed by Roper Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROP), CentralReach is entering an exciting phase of growth, innovation, and scale.

Recognized as one of the best places to work over 10 times by organizations such as Inc, Built In, and NJBIZ, our culture is centered around impact, inclusion, and flexibility. As a hybrid company with collaborative offices in Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Holmdel, NJ; and Verona, Italy, we foster a workplace where top talent can thrive and make a real difference in the lives of those we serve.
We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive health benefits, generous PTO, 401(k) matching, and paid parental leave to our full-time employees. Our team members also enjoy hybrid work schedules, career development support, wellness programs, and opportunities to give back through CR Cares™, our community engagement initiative.

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