Principal Platform Engineer

What success looks like (first 90 days)

Minimum qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time owning backend/platform systems in production.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating high-availability, high-uptime services (including incident response and postmortem culture).
• Strong systems thinking across distributed systems, databases, caching, queues, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
• Track record of leading large technical initiatives across teams or across a complex codebase.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain tradeoffs clearly and drive alignment.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience as a Staff/Principal Engineer (or equivalent scope) at a high-scale infrastructure org.
• Depth in one or more of: SRE / reliability engineering, performance engineering, database scalability, multi-tenant architectures, zero-downtime migrations.
• Experience building internal platforms that enable other engineers (tooling, CI/CD, shared services, paved roads).
• Experience in or affinity for manufacturing, industrial software, or hard-tech customer environments.

Benefits & Perks

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Employee Stock Option Plan.
• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.
• Paid holidays, sick days.
• Flexible Friday and PTO.
• 401K.
• First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.
• First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.
• Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.
• First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.