Senior Principal Platform Lead (AI & Agentic Systems)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom; hybrid work opportunities available

Employment: Full-time

Company

hirify.global builds AI-native, cloud-based enterprise software for asset management, operations, and critical services at global scale.

What you will do

• Own the Internal Developer Platform vision, roadmap, service catalogue, self-service scaffolding, golden paths, CI/CD integration, and developer portals.
• Define the developer experience for the Nexus platform from service creation through production observability.
• Coordinate with Kairos, Nexus, Auth, Base Tech, IAM, infrastructure, SRE, and product teams to deliver reliable and secure platform experiences.
• Drive adoption through onboarding metrics, self-service completion rates, platform NPS, time-to-first-deployment, DORA metrics, surveys, analytics, and feedback loops.
• Influence platform architecture and strategy across a large distributed engineering organisation.
• Mentor and technically guide Principal and Senior platform engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience 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 solution.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Crossplane, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and observability.
• Experience delivering golden paths, service templates, and CI/CD standardisation at enterprise scale.
• Experience measuring internal developer experience, prioritising improvements from user data, and building trust across distributed engineering teams.
• Familiarity with Go, React, Next.js, Kafka or Redpanda, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes on AKS.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work opportunities supporting different working styles and inclusive workplace experiences.
• International and diverse environment with collaboration across global engineering teams.
• Opportunity to contribute to sustainability-focused enterprise software with worldwide impact.
• Culture emphasising innovation, agility, collaboration, trust, and meaningful customer outcomes.