Principal DevOps Engineer (Poland Remote)
Turnitin, LLCCompany Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in global education. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educators and institutions to develop learning integrity solutions that recognize the enduring value of critical thinking in a rapidly changing world. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services in more than 185 countries around the world: Turnitin Feedback Studio, Clarity, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate. Protecting the value of an authentic education is at the heart of who we are.
Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.
Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.
Job Description
We are seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to serve as a technical leader within our DevOps organization.
This role partners closely with other senior technical leaders to translate strategic platform direction into reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly infrastructure capabilities. The Principal will lead the technical execution of platform initiatives, elevate engineering standards, and drive measurable improvements in reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery velocity.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will design and implement platform capabilities across our serverless and Kubernetes environments, guide senior engineers, and influence engineering practices across teams.
Key Responsibilities and Outputs:
Technical Leadership & Execution
- Partner with Architects to implement and operationalize platform strategy.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of platform capabilities across:
- Serverless-first AWS workloads
- Kubernetes (EKS) environments
- Break down large architectural initiatives into executable milestones.
- Guide platform implementation patterns and reusable modules.
Reliability & Operational Improvement
- Drive systemic improvements that reduce incident frequency and severity.
- Strengthen observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Support adoption of Product focused SRE frameworks across teams.
- Improve deployment safety, change management, and incident response practices.
Platform Evolution
- Improve CI/CD automation and deployment workflows.
- Contribute to Kubernetes cluster design evolution and networking patterns.
- Improve
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