Principal Platform Engineer
Feathr
| Company | Feathr |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Gainesville |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 10 Jun 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
Your Company:
As the Nonprofit Marketing Platform trusted by over 1,300 nonprofits https://www.feathr.co/resources/casestudies?utm_campaign=%5Bmkt%5D%20EOY%20Demo%20Ask%20-%20Leaders&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-928haKbQMIyW89zGlEFOw-7E9gJTQGWZIrNLgVwsbp71z1TlfUphLrKYhj-JAC8UQPRXla, Feathr is purpose-built to help our customers unlock more results, time, and confidence.
Feathr's software marketing platform equips nonprofits with the tools they need to build purposeful connections with their community and grow impact with confidence.
We're working on building an amazing culture at Feathr, where amazing people (like you) can do their best work. If you're ready to grow and "help the helpers" you've come to the right place.
PRINCIPAL PLATFORM ENGINEER
Compensation $165,000 - $180,000 base, and a bonus potential of up to 12%
Benefits: Fully Remote, Health/ Dental/ Vision, Paid Holidays/ Vacation/ Sick time, and more!
YOUR WORK:
As a Principal Platform Engineer, you serve as a technical anchor on the Platform Engineering Team, driving architectural decisions, leading complex initiatives, and raising the bar for how we build and operate infrastructure. You sit at the intersection of deep individual contribution and technical leadership: you're hands-on in the work while also shaping how the team approaches problems, mentoring engineers, and partnering cross-functionally to ensure our systems are reliable, secure, and built to scale.
This is a high-trust, high-ownership role for an engineer who wants to lead through technical excellence.
YOUR EXPERIENCE:
- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure management, or a similar role, with a track record of leading complex technical initiatives end to end.
- Demonstrated experience owning and advancing system architecture; not just maintaining existing infrastructure, but meaningfully improving it.
- Professional experience building APIs, writing production-grade scripts, and making substantive contributions to shared codebases beyond configuration and deployment work.
- Proven ability to influence technical direction and mentor engineers without direct authority.
- Experience collaborating with and presenting to non-technical stakeholders, translating infrastructure needs into business terms.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, and/or database management.
- Strong technical expertise in cloud services, networking, and/or database management.
- Solid understanding of security protocols, compliance frameworks, and operational best practices.
- Advanced experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Solid understanding of industry standards and compliance requirements, including ISO, SOC, or other relevant certifications.
- Preferred: Experience with Elasticsearch and SQL, for operational reporting and data visibility.
- Preferred: Experience with AI/ML tooling, LLM integrations, or cross-functional AI enablement initiatives.
YOUR QUALITIES:
- Technical Leadership: You set the standard. You make architectural calls, document your reasoning, and bring others along.
- Strategic Thinking: You can zoom out. You understand how infrastructure decisions connect to organizational goals and plan with long-term needs in mind.
- Problem-Solving: You're the person others come to when a problem is genuinely hard. You're methodical under pressure and confident making decisions with incomplete information.
- Communication: You write clearly, speak credibly to both technical and non-technical audiences, and document in a way that actually gets used.
- Mentorship: You invest in the engineers around you through code review, pairing, and feedback that helps people grow.\
- Collaboration:You work well across teams and functions. You understand that great infrastructure exists to serv
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