Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Role Summary

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.

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.

Requirements

About You

Technical breadth and depth

• Strong working knowledge across multiple stacks, including Java/J2EE, Oracle, Postgres, and modern frontend frameworks (React and Vue.js).
• Handson cloud experience across AWS, GCP, and/or Azure, with ability to dive deep on architecture, performance, reliability, and operations.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems for B2B SaaS with a strong focus on resiliency, scalability, and cost/performance tradeoffs.

Global cloud systems + regulated environments

• Experience with global cloud systems (multi-region, disaster recovery, high availability, data residency considerations).
• Experience supporting FedRAMP and/or comparable government cloud certification efforts (e.g., Moderate/High) or operating within similarly regulated environments.
• Comfort partnering with Security/Compliance while maintaining engineering velocity and strong developer experience.

Leadership as a senior IC

• Proven ability to influence without authority—aligning stakeholders, driving decisions, and building consensus across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to author clear design docs and architectural proposals.
• A coaching mindset with demonstrated impact mentoring and developing engineers across teams.

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes and cloud-native operations experience (platform tooling, service meshes, policy-as-code).
• Experience building internal platforms/shared services (identity/auth, developer tooling, CI/CD platforms).
• FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience at scale.

Benefits

We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—professionally and personally. Our offerings include:

• Competitive Compensation We recognize and reward your contributions with a salary package that reflects your value.
• Comprehensive Benefits Including health, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with company match, and generous paid time off to support your well-being.
• Flexible Work Environment Whether remote, hybrid, or in-office, we support work arrangements that promote productivity and balance.
• Inclusive & Collaborative Culture We foster a workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, teamwork is encouraged, and everyone has a voice.
• Tango is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, parental status, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
• Base pay offered is contingent on qualifications and other operational considerations. Base pay is just one piece of the full compensation structure offered at Tango . If this pay range is outside of your expectations, we still encourage you to apply and have a conversation with us.
• Base pay offered for this position is: $200,000 - $240,000
• *Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. for any employer.
• *We cannot sponsor employment-based visas at this time.

About the Company

With hundreds of customers across more than 140 countries, Tango is the leader in cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions use to manage the end-to-end real estate and facilities lifecycles. Tango ’s Store Lifecycle Management and Integrated Workplace Management System software, deliver a single solution spanning real estate, design & construction, lease administration & accounting, facilities maintenance, occupancy management, energy & sustainability, desk booking, visitor and space management.

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