Principal Platform Engineer

Note: Hiring for a client in Adtech space.

Title: Principal Platform Engineer

Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid)

Experience Range: 10-14 Years

Budget: 78 LPA

What youll do

Our client is a global programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do, so you will be too. No matter

the role or the location, were all united in the vision to lead the programmatic

industry and make it better.

As the Principal Engineer for DevOps & Cloud, you will own the technical vision,

architecture, and evolution of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD delivery systems,

observability stack, and DevSecOps practices. This role carries significant leadership

expectations: setting technical direction across teams, driving platform-as-a-product

thinking, mentoring engineers, and representing the platform perspective in architectural

forums and leadership discussions. You will be a force multiplier your success is measured

not just by what you deliver, but by how much better you make the teams and systems

around you.

Who are your stakeholders?

Key stakeholders include the Engineering leadership, Product Leads, Security Engineering,

and Leads across Engineering, Data Science and Analytics.

What youll bring

• 1014 years of experience in devops, infrastructure, or platform engineering with deep expertise in cloud-native architectures.
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) - networking, compute, storage, identity and access management, and security services.
• Production experience operating and scaling container orchestration platforms.
• Strong track record with Infrastructure-as-Code - module authoring, state management, and CI-driven provisioning workflows.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms at scale for large engineering organizations.
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles: shift-left security, policy-as-code, automated compliance, and secure-by-default infrastructure.
• Experience building observability platforms - metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Excellent communication skills - ability to translate complex infrastructure concepts for engineering, product, and leadership audiences. Weve highlighted some key skills, experience and requirements for this role. But

What impact will you create?

As a Principal Engineer, you will create a lasting impact by setting the technical direction

for how our client builds, ships, secures, and operates its products. Your work will improve

deployment velocity and safety for engineering teams across the organisation and reduce

infrastructure costs through architectural optimisation and governance. Through

platform-as-a-product thinking and proactive collaboration with cross-functional teams,

you will establish technical standards that scale with our client's growth, accelerate the

adoption of modern cloud-native practices, and play a key role in making the platform

team a strategic enabler for the entire engineering organisation.