Principal Platform Architect / Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX - 100% onsite - Will provide relocation assistance
Compensation: $200,000 - $225,000 Base Salary + Benefits
Overview
We are partnering with an innovative technology organization seeking a Principal Platform Architect / Senior Platform Engineer to help define and evolve the foundational infrastructure powering the company's next generation of applications and services.
This is a highly technical individual contributor role focused on architecting and building a scalable hybrid cloud platform that enables engineering teams to rapidly deploy, operate, and scale mission-critical applications. The successful candidate will serve as a strategic technical leader, designing the blueprint for the platform that underpins the organization's software ecosystem.
The environment combines private cloud, public cloud, and on-premises infrastructure, requiring a hands-on architect who can bridge infrastructure, cloud platforms, developer experience, and large-scale distributed systems.
What You'll Do
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for a modern hybrid cloud platform spanning private, public, and on-premises environments.
- Design the foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities that support application development across the organization.
- Build and enhance internal platform products and self-service capabilities used by engineering teams.
- Drive platform engineering best practices, automation strategies, and infrastructure standardization.
- Partner with software, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable platform services.
- Architect solutions supporting high-performance computing, GPU-enabled workloads, and data-intensive applications.
- Lead Infrastructure-as-Code initiatives to automate provisioning, deployment, and operational processes.
- Evaluate and implement technologies that improve scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership on container orchestration, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud architecture, or related disciplines.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale hybrid cloud environments.
- Deep expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Strong experience with Kubernetes and enterprise container platforms such as OpenShift, Rancher, or comparable technologies.
- Hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
- Strong understanding of private cloud and on-premises infrastructure architectures.
- Experience supporting high-performance computing (HPC) and/or GPU-based environments.
- Familiarity with large-scale data processing and streaming technologies such as Kafka and Spark.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, networking, observability, reliability, and platform operations.
- Proven ability to architect platforms used by large engineering organizations.
Preferred Background
- Experience building internal developer platforms or platform-as-a-product environments.
- Experience within large technology organizations or enterprise-scale environments.
- Exposure to modern data infrastructure, real-time streaming systems, and AI/ML infrastructure.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.
Why This Role?
This opportunity is ideal for an architect-level engineer who enjoys designing the foundation that other engineers build upon. You'll have significant influence over platform strategy, cloud architecture, infrastructure modernization, and the developer experience across a highly technical organization.
