Senior Principal Platform Lead (Internal Developer Platform)

Location: Paris, Île-de-France Region, France; hybrid

Company

hirify.global develops cloud-based enterprise software for asset, operations, and critical-service management, including AI-native products using LLMs, agentic AI, and cloud-native technologies.

What you will do

• Own the vision, roadmap, and end-to-end execution of the Internal Developer Platform and Nexus developer experience.
• Build service catalogues, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, developer portals, and CI/CD integrations.
• Coordinate integrated developer experiences across Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, NGA, and hirify.global product teams.
• Define platform standards, integrate authentication and authorization into self-service workflows, and partner with IAM, infrastructure, and SRE teams.
• Measure and improve onboarding time, self-service completion, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment, and DORA metrics through feedback loops and usage analytics.
• Represent platform strategy in technical leadership forums and mentor Principal and Senior platform engineers without direct management responsibility.

Requirements

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or developer-tooling engineering, including at least 3 years in a senior/staff individual-contributor or technical-lead role.
• End-to-end ownership of an Internal Developer Platform or developer portal such as Backstage, Port, Cortex, or an equivalent, including adoption and maintenance at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on infrastructure depth with Kubernetes in production, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Crossplane, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
• Experience shipping golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardization at scale.
• Experience treating internal developers as customers, running surveys, tracking metrics, and prioritizing improvements based on data.
• Comfort with the NGA stack or ability to become productive quickly: Go for backend, React and Next.js for frontend, Kafka or RedPanda for event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS.
• Clear communication with engineering leaders and product directors, including explaining technical work to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working in a large, distributed engineering organization and building platform trust.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications, with concrete examples of AI tools used and their limitations.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work opportunities with an emphasis on inclusive workplace experiences and collaboration.
• Individual-contributor position with no team-management responsibility and leadership through influence.
• Work in a large, distributed, international engineering organization focused on AI-native enterprise software and sustainability.

Hiring process

• Applications should explain what developers used to create a new service before the candidate's platform was built, including the concrete developer-facing experience provided.
• Applications should describe the candidate's production AI tools, use cases, and limitations.