Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)

We are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical leader within our DevOps organization.

This role partners closely with other senior technical leaders to translate strategic platform direction into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly infrastructure capabilities. The Principal will lead the technical execution of platform initiatives, elevate engineering standards, and drive measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery velocity.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design and implement platform capabilities across our serverless and Kubernetes environments, guide senior engineers, and influence engineering practices across teams.

Key Responsibilities and Outputs:

Technical Leadership & Execution

• Partner with Architects to implement and operationalize platform strategy.
• Lead the technical design and delivery of platform capabilities across:
  • Serverless-first AWS workloads
  • Kubernetes (EKS) environments
• Break down large architectural initiatives into executable milestones.
• Guide platform implementation patterns and reusable modules.

Reliability & Operational Improvement

• Drive systemic improvements that reduce incident frequency and severity.
• Strengthen observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Support adoption of Product focused SRE frameworks across teams.
• Improve deployment safety, change management, and incident response practices.

Platform Evolution

• Improve CI/CD automation and deployment workflows.
• Contribute to Kubernetes cluster design evolution and networking patterns.
• Improve logging pipelines, cost visibility, tagging standards, and platform guardrails.
• Support platform modernization efforts with a focus on simplification and predictability.

Engineering Enablement

• Improve developer experience across platform offerings.
• Establish clear golden paths for deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to DORA metric visibility and engineering performance improvements.
• Support responsible AI tooling adoption in our workflows.

Influence & Mentorship

• Mentor senior engineers and elevate platform engineering standards.
• Lead technical discussions and design reviews.
• Make tradeoffs visible and articulate technical risk clearly.
• Reinforce disciplined intake and prioritization practices to protect strategic capacity.