Senior Principal Engineer, Platform Architecture & Strategy

Mirantis; United States; On-site; USD 230,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Benefits plan

Job summary

Mirantis, an IREN company, seeks a Sr. Principal Engineer for k0rdent to set the technical direction across core k0rdent, AI Infrastructure, and AI Apps.

You will be the senior IC and the technical counterpart to the engineering leadership, owning end-to-end architectural coherence to deliver a unified, production-grade platform for modern AI workloads on Kubernetes. You will mentor staff and principal engineers, establish department-wide standards, and collaborate with customers and upstream

Qualifications

• Expert-level proficiency across Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle, distributed systems, AI/ML workload runtimes, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve multi-quarter technical roadmap for k0rdent ensuring coherence across pillars.

Skills

Kubernetes architecture

Distributed systems

AI/ML runtimes

Observability (metrics/logs/traces/SLO

Systems architecture

Technical strategy

Mentorship

Communication

Business judgment

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or 10 years related experience

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

CNCF projects

Model serving runtimes

Job description

Mirantis, an IREN company, seeks a Sr. Principal Engineer for k0rdent to set the technical direction across core k0rdent, AI Infrastructure, and AI Apps.

You will be the senior IC and the technical counterpart to the engineering leadership, owning end-to-end architectural coherence to deliver a unified, production-grade platform for modern AI workloads on Kubernetes. You will mentor staff and principal engineers, establish department-wide standards, and collaborate with customers and upstream