Principal Platform Engineer - Remote (UK)

Cazoo Group; United States; Vor Ort; USD 120.000 - 173.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Pension matching

£2,000 referral bonus

Annual conference

Free food & drinks in the office

Brentford FC partnerships

Zusammenfassung

Cazoo is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to shape the next generation of its technology platform. This remote, UK-based role blends technical leadership with hands-on software engineering as we modernise our Azure-based architecture toward scalable, event-driven services.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural initiatives across teams and own core platform roadmaps while remaining closely involved with delivery and engineering practices.

Qualifikationen

• Extensive backend/platform engineering experience in high-traffic systems.
• Azure cloud experience; cloud-native architectures and IaC.
• Proficiency in TS/Node.js or strong transferable background like Java.
• Experience with Kafka, Event Hubs or Service Bus.
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD and observability tools.
• Experience designing data-intensive services with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Technical leadership, mentoring and cross-team influence.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and guardrails.

Aufgaben

• Lead platform modernisation to cloud-native, event-driven services.
• Own and deliver the roadmap for core platform capabilities.
• Remain hands-on: write production code and review PRs.
• Improve developer experience with shared services and tooling.
• Enhance scalability, reliability and observability of the platform.
• Collaborate with architects and cross-functional squads to implement vision.
• Mentor engineers and establish consistent engineering standards.
• Promote safe AI-assisted development practices.

Kenntnisse

Backend/Platform Eng

Azure

TypeScript/Node.js

Kafka

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted development

Architectural leadership

Tools

Cloud services

Event-driven architecture

Jobbeschreibung

Cazoo is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to shape the next generation of its technology platform. This remote, UK-based role blends technical leadership with hands-on software engineering as we modernise our Azure-based architecture toward scalable, event-driven services.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural initiatives across teams and own core platform roadmaps while remaining closely involved with delivery and engineering practices.