Principal Engineer
BeameryABOUT BEAMERY
With the rapid expansion of AI and automation, the future of work has never been more challenging for organizations. Beamery’s unique jobs, skills and tasks data platform helps organizations navigate these challenges and make more informed decisions across Talent Lifecycle Management. Our solutions power recruitment, mobility, upskilling, diversity, work architecture and workforce planning for some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies.
We believe that where you work is much more than just a job. Millions of people are being left behind every day in their careers, and we’re on a mission to fix this by creating equal access to meaningful work, skills and careers for all.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building a representative Beamery, creating an equitable, inclusive and engaging environment for our people.
So, what are you waiting for? Join us and help us transform the future of work once and for all.
What’s ahead — and why it’s an exciting time to join the team:
Deepening our native integrations with SAP, Workday, Microsoft, and LinkedIn to seamlessly embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made.
Embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the future—powering workforce strategies, internal mobility, and skills forecasting.
Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools, make fairer decisions, and expand access to opportunity at scale.
But it’s not all about creating high-quality products, we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust, empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Principal Platform Engineers at Beamery solve the toughest reliability, scalability and infrastructure problems with the highest impact. Together they collaborate to set the standards for how Engineering will build, run and operate services in support of Beamery's strategic vision.
The Platform team enables engineering teams to build scalable and reliable services by supporting a foundation of tools and common services — including our managed Kubernetes clusters, observability tooling, and much more — while setting best practices around incident management and cost controls and empowering teams to build it, run it.
The Principal Engineers work together as a unified team with a common goal, ensuring our platform and architecture are as best as they can be to enable Product teams to deliver with ease and at scale. They provide technical guidance and mentorship to Engineers across all teams, playing a key role in raising the bar for Engineering performance.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING AT BEAMERY
Design solutions, produce architectures and write RFCs for platform, reliability and infrastructure initiatives which have impact across Engineering and beyond
Maintain your hands-on credibility by helping teams ship scalable, reliable and cost-effective services
Partner with Product and Engineering Directors on planning by scoping and sizing large new platform initiatives that span multiple teams
Work with other Principal Engineers to create and update the architectural vision that will deliver on Beamery's strategy
Engage with other Principal Engineers in setting and advocating company-wide standards for operational excellence, observability, reliability and incident response
Take a whole-company view of major incidents, identifying recurring themes and turning them into company-level investments
Own and evolve the platform and infrastructure tech radar, making data-backed cases for the adoption and deprecation of technologies and services
Set the standard for operational ownership, supporting teams to own their services end-to-end
Coaching and mentoring Engineers all the way up to Staff level from teams across the organisation
Collaborate on customer solutions with non-technical stakeholders including Sales, Customer Success and our high profile, Fortune 500 customers
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