Principal Platform Engineer
Budget / Salary$180,000–200,000
TypeFull-time job
LocationUnited States
Posted5 hours ago
Position Overview
Ashley Digital is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and delivery pipelines for our digital experience ecosystem — including our core ecommerce platform and the broader web traffic, CDN, and routing layers that serve our customers. This role combines hands-on infrastructure ownership with DevOps leadership and Site Reliability Engineering practice guidance. This role will drive KPIs for how we measure and manage our platforms and services.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Experience Infrastructure
Own infrastructure, alerting, and monitoring for the core ecommerce platform
Build and maintain observability (metrics, logs, alerting) to ensure platform reliability and fast incident detection
Partner with ecommerce engineering teams to define SLOs/SLAs and reduce operational risk
Manage infrastructure for the digital experience overall, including CDN, reverse proxies, and traffic routing
Design and operate routing/edge architecture that ensures performance, availability, and security across customer-facing properties
Evaluate and evolve CDN and edge strategy to support new digital initiatives
DevOps Leadership
Lead the DevOps approach for the digital experience overall, spanning Azure, GCP, and AWS resources
Drive the migration of existing pipelines to GitHub and GitHub Actions
Define standards, reusable workflows, and governance for multi-cloud, multi-team delivery pipelines
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and rollback safety
Serve as the technical authority on digital experience infrastructure and DevOps strategy
Mentor engineers on infrastructure, observability, and DevOps best practices
Drive adoption of best practices through documentation, tooling, and hands-on collaboration
Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency
Own cost visibility and optimization across infrastructure and processing costs across cloud providers
Build reporting/alerting to catch cost anomalies and drive accountability with engineering teams
Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities without compromising reliability
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
7+ years of software/platform engineering experience with 4+ years focused on infrastructure, SRE, or platform operations
Hands-on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) infrastructure, or equivalent large-scale ecommerce platform operations
Experience with CDN platforms, reverse proxies, and traffic routing/load balancing technologies (e.g., Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, NGINX, HAProxy)
Strong experience building and operating monitoring/alerting stacks (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus, Splunk)
Proven experience with CI/CD pipeline design and multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS)
Direct experience migrating CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions
Infrastructure & Platform Skills
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, HTTP/2/3, WAF, load balancing)
Experience with cloud cost management tools and practices (e.g., Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, AWS Cost Explorer, FinOps practices)
Leadership & Collaboration
Track record of leading infrastructure or platform initiatives across teams
Strong incident response and on-call leadership experience
Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs to both engineering and business stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with large commerce platforms
Experience with FinOps practices or formal cost governance programs
Background in migrating CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins) to GitHub Actions at scale
Experience with multi-CDN or hybrid routing architectures
Notice for Washington Residents
Please review important criminal background information related to Washington’s Fair Chance Acthere.
English: Fair Chance Act Flyer – June 2026
Spanish: Fair Chance Act Flyer – June 2026
Compensation: Salary Rate: $180,000-$200,000. Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Profit sharing is available to eligible employees; this discretionary program is dependent on the profitability of the company.
Benefits: When you join our family, you are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits programs which includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life/Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k), Paid Holidays, 80 hours paid vacation and accrual Washington paid sick leave 1 hour for every 40 hours worked up to 52 hours. Benefits may vary based on position and location, so we encourage you to speak with the recruiting team during the interview process.
Originally posted on Himalayas
Ashley Digital is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to own infrastructure, reliability, and delivery pipelines for our digital experience ecosystem — including our core ecommerce platform and the broader web traffic, CDN, and routing layers that serve our customers. This role combines hands-on infrastructure ownership with DevOps leadership and Site Reliability Engineering practice guidance. This role will drive KPIs for how we measure and manage our platforms and services.
Key Responsibilities
Digital Experience Infrastructure
Own infrastructure, alerting, and monitoring for the core ecommerce platform
Build and maintain observability (metrics, logs, alerting) to ensure platform reliability and fast incident detection
Partner with ecommerce engineering teams to define SLOs/SLAs and reduce operational risk
Manage infrastructure for the digital experience overall, including CDN, reverse proxies, and traffic routing
Design and operate routing/edge architecture that ensures performance, availability, and security across customer-facing properties
Evaluate and evolve CDN and edge strategy to support new digital initiatives
DevOps Leadership
Lead the DevOps approach for the digital experience overall, spanning Azure, GCP, and AWS resources
Drive the migration of existing pipelines to GitHub and GitHub Actions
Define standards, reusable workflows, and governance for multi-cloud, multi-team delivery pipelines
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and rollback safety
Serve as the technical authority on digital experience infrastructure and DevOps strategy
Mentor engineers on infrastructure, observability, and DevOps best practices
Drive adoption of best practices through documentation, tooling, and hands-on collaboration
Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency
Own cost visibility and optimization across infrastructure and processing costs across cloud providers
Build reporting/alerting to catch cost anomalies and drive accountability with engineering teams
Identify and execute cost optimization opportunities without compromising reliability
Required Qualifications
Technical Expertise
7+ years of software/platform engineering experience with 4+ years focused on infrastructure, SRE, or platform operations
Hands-on experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) infrastructure, or equivalent large-scale ecommerce platform operations
Experience with CDN platforms, reverse proxies, and traffic routing/load balancing technologies (e.g., Akamai, Cloudflare, Fastly, NGINX, HAProxy)
Strong experience building and operating monitoring/alerting stacks (e.g., Datadog, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus, Splunk)
Proven experience with CI/CD pipeline design and multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS)
Direct experience migrating CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions
Infrastructure & Platform Skills
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, HTTP/2/3, WAF, load balancing)
Experience with cloud cost management tools and practices (e.g., Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing, AWS Cost Explorer, FinOps practices)
Leadership & Collaboration
Track record of leading infrastructure or platform initiatives across teams
Strong incident response and on-call leadership experience
Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs to both engineering and business stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with large commerce platforms
Experience with FinOps practices or formal cost governance programs
Background in migrating CI/CD tooling (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins) to GitHub Actions at scale
Experience with multi-CDN or hybrid routing architectures
Notice for Washington Residents
Please review important criminal background information related to Washington’s Fair Chance Acthere.
English: Fair Chance Act Flyer – June 2026
Spanish: Fair Chance Act Flyer – June 2026
Compensation: Salary Rate: $180,000-$200,000. Individual compensation packages are based on various factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Profit sharing is available to eligible employees; this discretionary program is dependent on the profitability of the company.
Benefits: When you join our family, you are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits programs which includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life/Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401(k), Paid Holidays, 80 hours paid vacation and accrual Washington paid sick leave 1 hour for every 40 hours worked up to 52 hours. Benefits may vary based on position and location, so we encourage you to speak with the recruiting team during the interview process.
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