Principal Platform Engineer

About the Position

The goal of our customer is empowering their engineers to efficiently build,

interact, test, and deploy their platform with safety and effectiveness. As a

Principal Platform Engineer, you will be a key technical leader responsible

for designing, building, and scaling our platform. You will work closely with

engineering, product, and security teams to create a highly reliable, secure,

and efficient infrastructure. Your expertise will drive innovation, ensure

high availability, and optimize performance across our cloud-native services. You should be able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently and effectively, with awareness of the customer SLAs.

Location: Cairo

About the customer: Our client is a global payments technology provider operating at the forefront of cloud-native card issuing and processing. They serve banks, fintechs, and enterprise clients with highly scalable, secure, and real-time transaction solutions. With operations spanning multiple continents, the company enables seamless digital payment experiences through advanced infrastructure, data-driven insights, and rapid innovation-making them a key player in the evolving financial services landscape.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop scalable, secure, and resilient platform solutions for our applications with a clear roadmap.
• Lead technical strategy for platform infrastructure, automation, and DevOps best practices.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable seamless deployments and fast iterations.
• Optimize infrastructure and deployment for performance, cost, reliability (HA/DR), and security.
• Implement observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for system reliability.
• Ensure compliance with industry security and regulatory standards.
• Mentor engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, security teams, solution architects, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with business needs.
• Provide reference and templates for the common patterns of use by engineering teams.
• Build consensus across engineering teams on technical direction and implementation approaches.
• Maintain clear and accurate operational documentation.
• Lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies to enhance platform capabilities.

Requirements & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering.
• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production environments.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
• Understanding of security best practices for cloud-native applications.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a track record of technical leadership.
• Excellent team player and mentoring skills, with a track record of guiding cross-functional teams to achieve DevOps automation goals and enhance overall productivity.
• Experience working in a production capacity with either PaaS/SaaS/IaaS environment.
• Recognized as a subject matter expert within the company with in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within their division.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a global payments technology provider at the forefront of cloud-native card issuing and processing.
• Be part of a talented team that empowers engineers to build, interact, test, and deploy their platform with safety and effectiveness.
• Drive innovation, ensure high availability, and optimize performance across cloud-native services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business needs.

If you are passionate about technology and eager to work on challenging projects with a talented team, we would love to hear from you. Apply now and help us turn ideas into reality: [email protected]

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