Remote Principal Engineer — Database Platform & SRE

Lumen Technologies, Inc.; Oregon; Remote; USD 160,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer for Database Platform Engineering & SRE to drive modernization of the database estate. You will lead platform engineering and SRE adoption, improve reliability, and reduce toil across enterprise data platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and cloud readiness, with senior leadership responsibilities and collaboration across Security, Cloud, and Architecture teams. Fully remote within the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years in database, platform, or SRE engineering.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Proficiency with IaC, automation, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead transformation of DBA teams to Platform Engineering and SRE practices.
• Drive automation-first, reliability-focused operating models.
• Develop standards and processes to improve consistency and scale across DB platforms.
• Promote cloud readiness, standardization, and modernization efforts.

Skills

Database engineering

Platform engineering

SRE

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWX

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer for Database Platform Engineering & SRE to drive modernization of the database estate. You will lead platform engineering and SRE adoption, improve reliability, and reduce toil across enterprise data platforms.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and cloud readiness, with senior leadership responsibilities and collaboration across Security, Cloud, and Architecture teams. Fully remote within the United States.