Principal Platform Engineer

Safeguard Global is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to lead a team of Platform Engineers and collaborate across Engineering, Security, Architecture, Data, and Product to shape and deliver key platform outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams, including coaching and hiring.
• Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture, especially on AWS.
• Hands-on experience building developer platforms or self-service tooling.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD, release engineering, and automated quality gates.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and environment automation.
• Solid understanding of observability, reliability, and incident response practices.
• Strong communication skills—able to influence and align stakeholders across levels.
• Experience with modern service frameworks and Node.js/TypeScript platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS-native infrastructure tooling like SST and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of access control, identity integration, and fine-grained authorisation patterns.
• Experience enabling governed data usage for analytics and AI, including privacy and compliance controls.
• Practical experience with AI/LLM enablement, including governance, auditing, and cost management.
• A product-minded approach—optimising platforms for adoption, usability, and measurable outcomes.
• Track record of balancing high standards for security and reliability with pragmatic delivery.

Benefits

• Autonomy and Flexibility
• Generous leave
• Make a difference
• Corporate bonus/SIP
• International environment
• Human centered culture
• Learning