Principal Platform Engineer

Let’s Tango! Where Innovation Meets Impact.

At Tango Analytics, we’re all about helping businesses make smarter decisions through powerful technology, insightful data, and a whole lot of collaboration. Whether you're a creative thinker, a strategic planner, a tech wizard, or a customer champion, there's a place for you on our team. We believe work should be meaningful and fun - so if you're ready to make a difference while enjoying the journey, come join us and let's Tango!

We are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to join our dynamic and growing Platform Engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

Own platform and cloud architecture

• Define and evolve Tango’s platform architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy.

• Drive cloud modernization initiatives (migration, re-platforming, standardization of deployment patterns, scalability and resilience improvements).

• Create reference architectures and guardrails that enable autonomy while improving consistency and operational quality.

Establish reliability and operational excellence

• Set reliability standards and practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response and postmortems).

• Improve observability and operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks) to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents.

• Identify systemic bottlenecks (latency, throughput, resource utilization, toil) and lead cross-team initiatives to address them.

Enable government cloud readiness (FedRAMP)

• Provide technical leadership for architectures and operational controls needed for FedRAMP / government cloud certification readiness.

• Partner with Security/Compliance to translate controls into engineering requirements and pragmatic implementation plans.

• Lead technical reviews for identity, access, auditability, logging, change management, and incident processes in regulated environments.

Raise the bar through standards and mentorship

• Establish and evangelize best practices: design docs, architecture reviews, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, production readiness.

• Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders; coach teams through complex designs and tradeoffs.

• Create reusable patterns and “golden paths” (templates, libraries, tooling) that make the right way the easy way.