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.

Experience:

- 8–12+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering.

- Experience operating serverless and Kubernetes environments at scale.

- Proven track record improving reliability and reducing operational toil.

- Experience collaborating closely with multiple engineering teams.

Technical Expertise:

- Strong AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, VPC).

- Strong Kubernetes/EKS experience including networking and observability.

- Advanced Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).

- Strong CI/CD pipeline design experience.

- Experience with observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, OpenSearch, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch).

- Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability engineering.

Nice to Have:

- Experience implementing DORA metrics.

- Experience supporting SRE models and incident reduction initiatives.

- Experience improving developer onboarding and platform UX.

- Experience writing tools in scripting languages such as Python, Node.js, or similar.

- Experience evaluating AI-assisted development tooling safely.

Tii Elements:

- Resourcefulness

- Collaboration & Influencing

- Quality Focus

The expected annual base salary range for this position is: PLN 308,025/year to PLN 513,375/year . This position is bonus eligible.

Actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. Internal equity