Principal Platform Engineer
Sanderson · London · posted 8 days ago
Going rate £55,000UK median £56,438London £66,998
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Going rate for this occupation: £55,000 · UK median pay £56,438
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- UK pay for this occupation
- This role£100,000 to £150,000stated · above the range ONS published
- Going rate£55,000
- UK median£56,438
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| Percentile | Pay |
|---|---|
| 10th | £33,208 |
| 25th | £44,372 |
| 50th | £56,438 |
| 75th | £73,901 |
| 90th | £97,048 |
| Going rate | £55,000 |
| UK median | £56,438 |
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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 automation, resilience, observability and operational excellence initiatives Support and mentor engineers through code reviews, coaching and technical leadership Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions Deliver highly resilient, secure and performant infrastructure solutions Act as the technical authority for distributed database and persistence technologies
Required Experience
8+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, SRE or Software Engineering Expert-level AWS infrastructure experience Strong Infrastructure as Code expertise with Terraform Strong Linux systems administration and networking knowledge Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale Hands-on experience deploying and managing distributed database platforms Deep understanding of SQL vs NoSQL databases, ACID principles and CAP theorem Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant architectures Strong understanding of CI/CD, automation and DevOps practices Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership
Key Technologies
AWS Terraform Linux Cassandra Couchbase ScyllaDB Kafka CI/CD Pipelines Observability & Monitoring Platforms Distributed Database Technologies
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