Principal Platform Engineer

Company Description

We are SGS – the world's leading testing, inspection and certification company. Today, that mission is driven by data and technology. With 99,500 employees across 2,500 locations, we have a unique opportunity to build world-class digital products. We are now launching a new Hub in Madrid to do just that. This is your opportunity to build the foundational platform that will power our entire engineering organization.

Job Description

We are building a new, product-focused engineering culture from the ground up, and we need a pioneer to build our racetrack. Your mission is to create a frictionless, automated platform that enables our teams to ship code multiple times a daywith the executive backing and autonomy to make it happen.

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you are the master craftsman of our engineering environment. Your dual mission is to : 1) Build and run a lean, secure, and highly automated cloud platform (the "paved road") that makes it effortless for all engineers to build and ship. 2) Act as a lead, hands-on architect for our team's own flagship products, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and built with practical, reusable patterns.

What You'll Build and Own

• Build the Paved Road : Engineer core infrastructure from the ground up using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes, and a fully automated CI / CD pipeline. Your goal is to make the right way the easy way.
• Lead by Building : Act as the lead full-stack or backend engineer on our most critical projects, architecting through code and demonstrating best practices as you help deliver our first generation of data and AI products.
• Champion Reusability & Velocity : Identify, generalize, and build high-quality, reusable components and architectural patterns that emerge from our work and the work of other teams.
• Automate for Speed & Safety : Implement a practical DevSecOps culture by embedding automated security, testing, and observability directly into the development workflow.
• Be a Force Multiplier : Act as a key technical mentor and partner to other engineering teams, helping them leverage the platform and adopt best practices to increase their own velocity.

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