Altana AI
Principal Platform Engineer
$250K–$295K
Brooklyn, NY · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and reference architecture for Altana’s multi-cloud platform across commercial, regulated, and sovereign environments, enabling product teams to provision and operate infrastructure consistently.
What you'll do
- Drive cross-organization platform architecture and define patterns for AWS and Azure environments.
- Lead architecture for shared platform capabilities, environment and tenant provisioning, infrastructure as code, GitOps, Kubernetes configuration, and release engineering.
- Prototype complex platform components, align stakeholders on technical and cost tradeoffs, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure and platforms, including recognized technical authority for a platform used by other engineering teams.
- Production experience with AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale; deep Kubernetes experience; and hands-on production GitOps experience.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar; programming ability in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Hands-on AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools experience; working understanding of regulatory and accreditation constraints; BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Pay
$250,000 - $295,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
AWS, Azure, Terraform, OpenTofu, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Flux, Python
AI focus
Use AI-assisted development and agentic coding tools in platform engineering; define where these tools belong in engineering workflows.
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