Principal Engineer – Platform

InPost Group

. Own the long-term technical roadmap for the Platform Engineering Domain across four pillars: Platform Engineering & Delivery, Developer Experience, SRE & Reliability, AI & Cloud Foundations.

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • 🇵🇱 PolandLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the long-term technical roadmap for the Platform Engineering Domain across four pillars: Platform Engineering & Delivery, Developer Experience, SRE & Reliability, AI & Cloud Foundations.
Identify architectural risks and opportunities ahead of the teams — raise them early, propose solutions, drive resolution.
Define and evolve platform-wide standards: SDLC compliance (targeting SCS ≥ 80/100), observability baselines, cloud-native patterns.
Lead the technical strategy for InPost's migration from on-prem data centres to GCP.
Establish reference architectures for services running on GCP; review and govern deviations.
Drive cost efficiency, reliability, and security posture at the platform layer.
Define the developer platform vision and partner with the Developer Experience lead.
Shape the technical approach to AI adoption across InPost Technology.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must have 10+ years of software or infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in a principal or staff-level IC role at a company of comparable scale.
Deep GCP expertise — architecture, IAM, Kubernetes (GKE), networking, cost management.
Strong SRE foundations: SLOs, error budgets, incident management, reliability by design.
Demonstrated track record of driving multi-team technical initiatives from ambiguity to delivery.
Ability to operate at both the whiteboard and the pull request — you read code, you write RFCs, you review production incidents.
Clear, direct communication in English (Polish is an advantage, not a requirement).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity to work in a diverse, international and cross-functional environment, along with leading experts.
Fulfilling careers with a range of benefits for employees and invests in providing training opportunities for their development.
Your impact will be visible instantly and you will be making a difference in our users lives.
Real ownership — you'll make architectural calls that impact multiple markets.
A platform with genuine complexity worth solving (international scale, complex CMS).
Space to experiment with AI tooling and bring new ideas into production.
A mature, experienced team that values technical depth.

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Hard Skills & Tools

GCPKubernetesIAMnetworkingcost managementSLOserror budgetsincident managementSDLC compliancecloud-native patterns

Soft Skills

clear communicationdirect communicationleadershipproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingtechnical visioninitiativeadaptabilitystakeholder engagement