Principal Platform Engineer - Base Technologies

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Principal Platform Engineer - Base TechnologiesFull-timeCompany DescriptionIFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.Job DescriptionAbout the roleBase Technologies is the foundational capability subdomain of Nexus — IFS's central hosting and services platform, the shared runtime and operational backbone that powers IFS.ai and the broader IFS product suite.Today that's Red Panda and Kafka for event streaming, and the NATS evaluation for next-generation messaging. Tomorrow it's whatever new shared capability the platform needs to package and serve — external API gateways, email and notification services, shared storage, shared workflow engines, anything that isn't a database, isn't a cluster, and isn't identity, but is a capability that multiple product teams should be able to consume on demand without reinventing it.We're looking for a Domain Owner for Base Technologies: a hands-on technical leader whose real specialisation is platform engineering as a product — someone who understands how to take a raw piece of technology and wrap it into a capability that product teams can adopt easily, safely, and at scale.This is a Principal-level Architect / Team Lead role. You'll own the Base Technologies subdomain end-to-end — strategy, architecture, delivery, and team health. You'll partner with your Program Manager, with the Database and Infrastructure domain leaders, and with engineering leadership across the product teams who consume your platforms.We care about the quality of your experience, not just the years. A senior engineer with four years of deep, deliberate platform-engineering work is more interesting than someone with fifteen years of incidental exposure.Above all, this role is for someone with high agency — a genuine self-starter who sees an open canvas and wants to put their own stamp on it. You won't be handed a detailed playbook. You'll be handed a team, a strategic mandate, a technology portfolio that's part-formed and part-waiting-to-be-defined, and the trust to shape it.What you'll ownThe Platform Product MindsetTreat every technology in the subdomain as a...