Principal Platform Engineer — AI, Migrations & APIs

Pearson; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a senior engineer to lead the modernization of a content platform, owning design and delivery across technology tracks. You will work hands-on across UI, workflow orchestration, AI, backend services, and cloud infrastructure, guiding engineers and influencing architecture decisions.

You will drive migrations of large content and data, build reusable platform capabilities, and steward security, reliability, and scalability across services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 12+ years building and operating production software.
• Experience leading multi-team platform shifts, migrations, and large-scale re-platforming initiatives.
• Strong design and implementation skills across Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and data stores (MongoDB).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical plan and delivery for multiple technology tracks from design through launch.
• Migrate large volumes of content/data with verification for downstream safety.
• Build shared capabilities (media, search, AI content services) exposed via clean APIs.
• Provide honest costed views of technical debt and prioritize fixes.
• Be the technical point of contact for incidents with root-cause follow-up.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

React

MongoDB

Kafka

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

ECS Fargate

Lambda

S3

API Gateway

Terraform

New Relic

CloudWatch

GitHub Actions

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior engineer to lead the modernization of a content platform, owning design and delivery across technology tracks. You will work hands-on across UI, workflow orchestration, AI, backend services, and cloud infrastructure, guiding engineers and influencing architecture decisions.

You will drive migrations of large content and data, build reusable platform capabilities, and steward security, reliability, and scalability across services.