Principal Platform Engineer

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Job Description
The Principal Platform Engineer provides strategic technical leadership across the organization, driving scalable architecture, engineering excellence, and platform reliability. This role influences design decisions, fosters a culture of quality and agility, and ensures alignment with business and technical strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Architect Scalable, Future-Ready Systems Provide architectural direction that balances current business needs with long-term scalability. Guide teams in applying design patterns that support iterative, autonomous development and minimize future rework.
Drive Strategic Engineering Initiatives Define the architectural roadmap and align engineering investments with business value. Evaluate ROI and set strategic objectives that shape technical direction across the platform.
Champion Developer Enablement and Delivery Excellence Establish and evolve delivery methodologies that promote fast, safe, and secure releases. Foster a culture of high-quality code reviews, thoughtful release planning, and minimal production disruption.
Lead Incident Response and Operational Resilience Promote a debugging mindset and lead cross-team incident response. Select tools and define processes that support effective troubleshooting and platform reliability.
Elevate Quality and Testing Standards Define testing strategies aligned with the testing pyramid. Use quality metrics to identify gaps and guide teams toward best practices in test automation and validation.
Embed Security and Compliance into Platform DNA Partner with security teams to shape and promote a security-first culture. Ensure platform decisions align with compliance requirements and proactively manage risk.
Coach, Align, and Foster Accountability Mentor teams on architectural trade-offs, technical debt, and prioritization. Promote ownership, clarify cross-team dependencies, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
Eight or more years of relevant experience
Preferred Skills/Experience
Expertise in performance, scalability, enterprise architecture, and agile practices
Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform engineering
Experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing)
Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills
Proven ability to collaborate and influence across teams
Strategic understanding of team domains and business alignment
Location Expectations
The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .
Benefits:
Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):
Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://careers.usbank.com/verification-of-eligibility-for-employment) .
The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $170,255.00 - $200,300.00
U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
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Location:
Hackensack, NJ, United States
Job Type:
PartTime
Category:
Computer And Mathematical Occupations

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