Principal DevOps Engineer

🇵🇱In-Person - Krakow, Polandzł180K–zł280K/yri1h ago

K-12 Engineering Devops Cloud Computing Software Engineering Kubernetes Infrastructure Leadership

Role Snapshot

Principal DevOps Engineer serving as a technical leader within the DevOps organization, translating strategic platform direction into reliable, scalable infrastructure capabilities. This hands-on leadership role drives measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery velocity across serverless and Kubernetes environments.

Key Responsibilities: Design and implement platform capabilities across AWS serverless and EKS environments, lead technical execution of platform initiatives, and guide senior engineers on implementation patterns. Drive systemic reliability improvements, strengthen observability standards, enhance CI/CD automation, and mentor teams on engineering best practices and SRE frameworks.

Skills & Tools: Expert-level proficiency in AWS (serverless, EKS), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (logging, metrics, tracing), and infrastructure-as-code practices. Strong technical leadership, architectural thinking, mentorship abilities, and capability to influence engineering standards across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications: 8+ years of DevOps/platform engineering experience with 3+ years in a senior or lead technical role, demonstrating expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and platform strategy implementation. Proven track record of leading architectural initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, and driving organizational improvements in reliability and operational efficiency.

Location: In-Person - Krakow, Poland

Compensation: zł180K–zł280K/yr (estimated)

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Job Description

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.