LTS
Technology
PrincipalPlatformEngineer
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“Principal Platform Engineer at LTS. Skills: Platform engineering, AWS infrastructure, Identity management, AI tooling. Own architectural shape of platform. Own security and compliance shape”
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
On call, Postmortem ownership
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
10 years of professional infrastructure or platform engineering equivalent experience, On call for production systems, Hands-on AWS infrastructure-as-code, Identity and access design, Worked under regulatory pressure, Designs for portability, Heavy native use of AI tooling, Observability discipline
Nice to Have
GovCloud, FedRAMP, or restricted-environment deployment experience, Multi-tenant SaaS architecture, Sovereign cloud, on-prem, or air-gapped deployments, Accreditation experience, HIPAA/HITECH operational experience, Open-source contributions
What You'll Do.
Own architectural shape of platform
Own security and compliance shape
Own architectural portability
Own internal developer experience
Be on call for systems
Translate regulatory pressure into infrastructure decisions
Partner with downstream deployment teams
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Senior engineering team; Downstream deployment teams
Full Job Description
LTS is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to join a small, senior engineering team applying frontier AI to one of the most consequential legacy systems still running in production today. The mission: build agents that read, translate, and modernize a decades-old codebase that millions of people quietly depend on. The work has executive backing, real users, and a customer who knows exactly what they’re buying. Specifics shared once we’re talking. The team is small by design. Every seat carries unusual leverage, and we hire people who are already deep in this work. We use AI tooling natively — agents in parallel, model as collaborator, no exceptions. What You’ll Do: The Principal Platform Engineer owns the architectural shape of the platform on commercial AWS. Infrastructure decisions compound and are hard to undo, so this role calls for someone with real production experience: outages they caused, audits they sat through, identity bugs they debugged at 2am. Own the architectural shape of the platform — VPC, managed PostgreSQL, serverless compute, object storage, observability, CI/CD, defined as code. Own the security and compliance shape so federal identity standards (SSO, smart-card, federated identity) plug in cleanly when the platform moves into restricted environments: encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, identity abstraction, tenant isolation, data residency primitives. Own architectural portability so deployment in regulated or restricted environments is straightforward when the time comes. Own internal developer experience — logs, traces, deploy speed, the local dev loop. Be on call for systems you designed; own the postmortem when things break. Translate regulatory pressure (FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC 2, ITAR, or comparable control catalogs) into concrete infrastructure decisions. Partner with downstream deployment teams on the handoff into restricted environments. What We’re Looking For: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relat
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