Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Let’s Tango ! Where Innovation Meets Impact.
At Tango Analytics, we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun — so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango !
We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Platform Engineering team.
Key Responsibilities :
Own platform and cloud architecture
- Define and evolve Tango ’s platform architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy.
- Drive cloud modernization initiatives (migration, re-platforming, standardization of deployment patterns, scalability and resilience improvements).
- Create reference architectures and guardrails that enable autonomy while improving consistency and operational quality.
Establish reliability and operational excellence
- Set reliability standards and practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response and postmortems).
- Improve observability and operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks) to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents.
- Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and lead cross-team initiatives to address them.
Enable government cloud readiness (FedRAMP)
- Provide technical leadership for architectures and operational controls needed for FedRAMP / government cloud certification readiness.
- Partner with Security/Compliance to translate controls into engineering requirements and pragmatic implementation plans.
- Lead technical reviews for identity, access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes in regulated environments.
Raise the bar through standards and mentorship
- Establish and evangelize best practices: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness.
- Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders; coach teams through complex designs and tradeoffs.
- Create reusable patterns and “golden paths” (templates, libraries, tooling) that make the right way the easy way.
About You:
Technical breadth and depth
- Strong working knowledge across multiple stacks, including Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, and modern frontend frameworks (React and Vue.js).
- Handson cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, with ability to dive deep on architecture, performance, reliability, and operations.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems for B2B SaaS with a strong focus on resiliency, scalability, and cost/performance tradeoffs.
Global cloud systems + regulated environments
- Experience with global cloud systems (multi-region, disaster recovery, high availability, data residency considerations).
- Experience supporting FedRAMP and/or comparable government cloud certification efforts (e.g., Moderate/High) or operating within similarly regulated environments.
- Comfort partnering with Security/Compliance while maintaining engineering velocity and strong developer experience.
Leadership as a senior IC
- Proven ability to influence without authority—aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and building consensus across teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and architectural proposals.
- A coaching mindset with demonstrated impact mentoring and developing engineers across teams.
Nice to Have
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations experience (platform tooling, service meshes, policy-as-code).
- Experience building internal platforms/shared services (identity/auth, developer tooling, CI/CD platforms).
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