Principal Platform Engineer — Architect & Hands-On Leader

Deluxe Entertainment Services; Burbank (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Vacation & sick leave

401(K)

Job summary

Deluxe in Burbank, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the technical foundations of our global content localization platform. This is a hands-on, senior technical role focused on architecture, service design, and shared platform capabilities.

You will work with the Senior Director of Architecture to translate direction into scalable systems, while still contributing production code and leading complex modernization efforts across teams.

Qualifications

• Over 12 years designing, building, and operating distributed production systems.
• Hands-on today and able to ship production code.
• Deep experience in services, API design, and data modeling.
• Experience modernizing legacy apps without halting delivery.
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes/EKS expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own design of new services and decomposition of existing ones.
• Set patterns for API design, versioning, error handling, and testing.
• Lead modernization of legacy apps into well-factored services.
• Own design and implementation of shared capabilities on Kubernetes-based platform.
• Design and maintain shared libraries and SDKs with versioning and migrations.
• Establish standards for service-to-service communication and event-driven messaging.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and code reviews.
• Translate strategy into executable technical plans with cost and risk assessments.

Skills

Software architecture

Go

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

OIDC/OAuth2

Code review

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

Terraform

CDK

Helm

Job description

Deluxe in Burbank, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to own the technical foundations of our global content localization platform. This is a hands-on, senior technical role focused on architecture, service design, and shared platform capabilities.

You will work with the Senior Director of Architecture to translate direction into scalable systems, while still contributing production code and leading complex modernization efforts across teams.