Principal Platform Engineer, Autonomous Data Centers

STN, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizon AI is building the operating system for how organizations run themselves. The Autonomous Platform Principal is a fast-moving platform builder and technical deputy, responsible for reliability while acting as the decision-maker when the Chief Architect is unavailable.

You will harden dispatch, introduce caching and event streaming, own orchestration choices (including Kubernetes paths), and drive infrastructure-as-code and safe, per-session isolation for concurrent agent runs.

Qualifications

• Shipping complex distributed systems in production.
• Experience achieving production reliability and observability.
• Proficiency in Python and Java; backend service deployment.

Responsibilities

• Fix dispatch reliability: circuit breakers, retries, health-aware routing.
• Add caching layer and event streaming backbone.
• Own orchestration decisions and implementation, including Kubernetes paths.
• Promote infrastructure-as-code and per-session isolation for safety.
• Ensure cross-cutting standards for testing and observability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Python

Java

Backend services

Deployment automation

System orchestration

Tools

Kubernetes

Event streaming

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Horizon AI is building the operating system for how organizations run themselves. The Autonomous Platform Principal is a fast-moving platform builder and technical deputy, responsible for reliability while acting as the decision-maker when the Chief Architect is unavailable.

You will harden dispatch, introduce caching and event streaming, own orchestration choices (including Kubernetes paths), and drive infrastructure-as-code and safe, per-session isolation for concurrent agent runs.