Principal Platform Engineer

Role: Principal Platform Engineer
Location: London, United Kingdom (Hybrid - Minimum 1 Day Per Week in Office)
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: £97,480 - £121,850 + 20% Flexible Benefits Package

Are you an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building and operating large-scale distributed systems and database platforms? We're looking for a hands-on technical leader to help shape the future of our platform engineering capability. This is an opportunity to lead complex engineering initiatives, define technical strategy, and act as a subject matter expert across AWS infrastructure, distributed databases, Terraform and cloud-native platform services. You'll work closely with architects, engineers and senior stakeholders to design resilient, scalable and secure platform solutions while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices across the organisation.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and engineering of secure, scalable and highly available cloud platforms
• Build and manage AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Design, deploy and operate distributed systems and persistence platforms
• Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple engineering teams
• Define engineering standards, platform roadmaps and best practices
• Drive...