Senior Principal Platform Lead || Internal Developer Platform

As Senior Principal Platform Lead, Platform DX, you own and shape the Internal Developer Platform end-to-end. You will set the strategy, drive adoption, and deliver a self-service experience that developers love, including service templates, golden paths, and a cohesive catalogue. This is a hands-on, greenfield build where you translate developer needs into scalable platform solutions and perform in a large, distributed engineering environment. You will explain platform concepts to non-technical stakeholders and advocate for a performant, secure DX across NGA and IFS product teams. Join a mission to empower enterprise AI-native software at scale.

• hybrid work opportunities
• inclusive workplace culture
• global team
• focus on sustainability
• opportunity to shape AI-native enterprise software

• Own the IDP vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution including service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portals
• Define and promote platform standards that simplify the right way to build and run services
• Drive measurable adoption metrics and improve developer experience across teams
• Integrate authentication/authorization into the IDP self-service model
• Collaborate with NGA product teams and IFS R&D to prioritize fixes based on developer feedback and usage data
• Partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams to ensure a coherent, reliable, and secure platform surface
• Establish feedback loops, developer surveys, usage analytics, and relentless iteration
• Influence platform strategy at the architectural level and mentor senior engineers on DX quality

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering
• 3+ years in senior/staff IC or technical lead role
• End-to-end ownership of an IDP or developer portal (Backstage, Port, Cortex, or equivalent)
• Production experience with enterprise-scale platforms and adoption challenges
• Hands-on depth in Kubernetes, GitOps, IaC (Terraform/Crossplane), CI/CD, secrets management, observability
• Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardization at scale
• Customer-centric view of developers, with data-driven prioritization
• Comfort with NGA stack or ability to ramp quickly: Go, React/Next.js, Kafka/RedPanda, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
• Strong communication with engineering leaders and product directors; able to influence beyond engineers
• Experience in large, distributed engineering organizations and building platform trust

• clear communication
• influencing without authority
• data-driven decision making
• Kubernetes
• GitOps
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Crossplane)