Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Denver, CO •
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Job Title:

Principal Software Engineer, Platform Engineering Job Type: Full-time

Location:

Hybrid - Denver, CO (3 days on-site per week)
About Cloud Bees Cloud Bees  helps organizations build, run, and govern software factories, giving enterprises the confidence to ship software better, faster, and safer.

Writing code is no longer the bottleneck. Governing what reaches production and validating its impact is. As enterprises adopt agentic coding, software is created faster than most teams can review, secure, and validate. Without consistent governance, organizations risk shipping code they cannot explain, audit, or trust.

Cloud Bees addresses this challenge without asking teams to replace the tools they already use. Across every toolchain a customer runs, Cloud Bees makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable before it reaches production. Cloud Bees Unify is the product behind this: a governance layer, with context and control-plane capabilities, that enforces consistent policy and evidence across every tool, team, and workflow.

Founded in 2010, Cloud Bees is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bridgepoint Capital, HSBC, Golub Capital, Delta-v Capital, Matrix Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Visit us at .About the Role The Cloud Bees platform is the foundation everything else is built on. When it works well, engineers ship faster, customers trust us more, and the product compounds. When it doesn't, every team feels it. This is that team — and the future of the platform depends on you. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team, developing microservices using Go and running in AWS.

You will be directing, leading, and contributing to build and operate the platform. You bring deep back-end engineering expertise and, just as importantly, a product mindset — you understand that “platform is a product”, and that the quality of your work defines what we can build and what our customers will experience.

You are excited about the future of software development with coding agents, and you have full-embraced agentic AI for doing your everyday work. You ship production-quality code, you design resilient systems that outlast you, and you have the judgment to know when to optimize for speed and when to optimize for correctness. You are fluent in the tradeoffs of distributed systems, curious about how the platform affects the full software delivery lifecycle, and you are committed to leaving things better than you found them.

Requirements What You'll DoOwn the Platform Foundation:

Understand the existing platform code and architecture, forming a strong, evidence-based opinion on its strengths, its weaknesses, and what to do about them.

Define the technical roadmap with measurable goals and sequence the work to deliver incremental value.

Write the hardest code yourself. Own the critical-path refactors, the performance work, and the stability fixes.

Bring the Team with You:

Earn the trust of an established team. Listen first, then show your reasoning and let the code make the case.

Guide teams through execution by setting direction, defining standards, and unblocking the hard problems.

Lead design reviews and code reviews with rigor and honesty.

Make Quality the Default:

Establish development practices that hold up as the team and platform evolve: testing, interfaces, service boundaries, and release discipline.

Drive observability (metrics, structured logs, tracing) and use it to find root causes.

Write down architecture decisions and the reasoning behind them for the next evolution to learn and improve upon..You May Be a Good Fit IfYou have 12+ years of relevant experience as a founding, principal, or…