Blue River Technology

Our mission is to create intelligent machinery that solves monumental challenges for our customers.

Principal Platform Engineer

Platform EngineerPlatform EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2011H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

51 days ago

Salary

$174K - $305K / year

Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglishAirflowAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaMongo DBPostgresPrometheusPythonReactSparkTerraform

Job Description

• Own and drive the technical vision, architecture, and standards for data enablement within the CVML and robotics platform. • Serve as technical lead for major initiatives, guiding design, implementation, and delivery. • Mentor and coach Senior and Staff Engineers from a technical standpoint through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance. • Design, build, and maintain scalable APIs and backend services exposing robotics, sensor, simulation, and ML lifecycle data. • Lead development of developer-facing applications and visualizations supporting model training, evaluation, debugging, and deployment workflows. • Architect, build, and operate data pipelines and workflows • Define and implement infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and Terragrunt. • Establish and evolve observability standards using Prometheus and Grafana. • Partner closely with MLEs, Data Scientists, Robotics Engineers, and Product to translate workflows into robust platform capabilities. • Get hands-on to unblock teams, resolve complex technical challenges, and lead response to high-priority incidents. • Clearly communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, and architectural rationale to engineering and leadership stakeholders. • Applies a customer-first approach to platform design, ensuring solutions solve meaningful customer problems at scale.

Job Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated impact at the Staff or Principal Engineer level.
  • Proven experience serving as a technical lead for senior engineers on complex, distributed systems.
  • Strong background in building data platforms, internal tooling, or developer platforms.
  • Expertise in designing and operating APIs and distributed systems at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with:
  • Python, React
  • Databricks / Spark
  • Databases: Postgres, MongoDB
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Orchestration: Airflow or similar
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / Terragrunt
  • Observability: Prometheus / Grafana.
  • Strong system design skills and architectural judgment.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  • Bonus eligibility
  • Benefit programs

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