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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
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About the role
As Principal Platform Engineer, you will lead the architecture and runtime direction for Phizenix's platform, focusing on container orchestration, tenancy-grade isolation, and automated environment lifecycles. You will implement compliance and security as code, manage shared CI/CD pipelines with automated gates, and guide strategic architecture decisions while mentoring engineers across client engagements.
What you'll do
- Drive platform runtime direction, container orchestration, and tenant-grade isolation across client engagements.
- Design composable infrastructure as code at fleet scale using versioned templates and one-command environment lifecycles.
- Build shared CI/CD delivery pipelines with pluggable quality, security, and AI-governance enforcement gates.
- Implement security and compliance as code, including scanning toolchains, admission control, and SOC2 / ISO 27001 audit evidence.
- Lead strategic architecture decisions, translate platform risk for executive stakeholders, and mentor engineers.
What you bring
- 15+ years in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with fleet-scale infrastructure as code (Terraform or OpenTofu with Terragrunt) and production multi-tenant Kubernetes.
- Proven track record building shared CI/CD platforms and implementing security/compliance as code (OPA, Kyverno, Trivy, Snyk).
- Strong hands-on command of hyperscaler cloud identity, network security, and observability using OpenTelemetry.
- Background building and operating production applications in at least one of Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
About Phizenix
Phizenix provides platform and infrastructure engineering expertise, building resilient multi-tenant foundations and delivery systems across client engagements.
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