Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Our Vision

We believe in a world where travel companies can innovate freely, growing and accelerating their business, while delivering the experience travelers want and the change the industry needs.

FLYR is a technology company that unlocks freedom to innovate for the travel industry – eliminating legacy constraints to enable real-time decision making and create the experiences travelers seek. With FLYR, businesses are able to quickly unlock modern retailing capabilities, improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience.

Flight Itinerary (About The Role)

We're looking for an exceptional and highly experienced Principal or Staff Platform Engineer to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will be the technical leader and force multiplier for our platform engineering initiatives, driving the architecture, strategy, and execution of our next-generation cloud infrastructure and developer experience. If you are an expert in cloud engineering, Kubernetes, modern CI/CD, and love tackling large-scale complexity, we want to talk to you.

What Your Journey Will Look Like (Responsibilities)

• Architectural Leadership: Tackle the most complex technical problems across the platform and drive scalable, resilient, and cost-effective architectural solutions.

• Technical Strategy: Proactively identify technical gaps across various platform domains (e.g., compute, networking, data, security, observability, devex) and propose high-impact optimizations and strategic roadmaps.

• Initiative Ownership: Drive large, complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from concept and design to implementation and rollout, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Maintain strong cross-functional communication and alignment with product, security, and other engineering teams to ensure our platform meets broad organizational needs.

• Developer Experience (DevEx): Design and implement best-in-class CI/CD pipelines with a relentless focus on improving the DevEx and accelerating feature delivery.

• Mentorship & Growth: Accelerate the team's growth by providing expert mentorship, technical guidance, and upskilling opportunities for mid-level and senior engineers.

• Knowledge Sharing & Change Management: Conduct regular knowledge sharing sessions across the wider engineering organization. Drive technical change management to ensure successful adoption of new platform patterns and practices.

What To Pack For This Trip (Qualifications)

• Cloud Engineering Expertise: Strong experience with cloud engineering, particularly within GCP and/or AWS, focusing on large-scale, high-availability, and cost-optimized infrastructure.

• Container Orchestration: Expert-level proficiency in Kubernetes architecture, administration, security, and networking.

• Release & Deployment: Deep expertise in modern release engineering practices and tooling, including Helm and declarative GitOps tools like ArgoCD.

• Observability: Strong knowledge of observability best practices, tooling (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger), and defining actionable metrics using golden signals, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Expertise in designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions, particularly with Terraform or similar tools.

• System Design: Proven track record of designing, building, and operating highly distributed and reliable systems at scale.

• Communication: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

First-Class Amenities

• Regular employment contract

• Equity in Series D startup with high growth potential

• Flexible working hours

• Complimentary Breakfast/Lunch (in-office)

• Gym in the office building

• Pension Plan

• Top-quality tech equipment

• Annual educational fund

• Many more!

Our Commitment to Equality

Here at FLYR, we’re committed to growing with intention, having our teams better reflect the world around us. We strive to create an environment of inclusion and even more importantly, belonging, where psychological safety, empathy, and human connection are at the center of our leadership principles. Not only does this enable us to create better products and have a better work environment, it’s good for the bottom line and it’s the right thing to do.

FLYR provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetics, marital or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, FLYR complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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