[Remote] Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Excellence

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. The company is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of their cloud-based infrastructure and developer platform, focusing on enabling product teams through well-designed, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. Responsibilities • Design and build scalable platform capabilities that empower engineering teams to ship features reliably, securely, and quickly • Create and maintain developer-facing tools and paved paths (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, observability stacks, secrets management) • Implement Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps patterns to promote consistency, automation, and compliance across environments • Collaborate with product, security, and compliance stakeholders to build platform services that meet SLAs and governance standards • Drive efforts to standardize and simplify infrastructure across cloud environments (AWS, Azure), enabling secure multi-cloud operation • Lead incident response, reliability engineering, and observability improvements that ensure platform uptime and performance • Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, guiding teams on infrastructure architecture, platform adoption, and best practices • Define and execute on a strategic roadmap to evolve the internal platform in line with company growth and technology direction Skills • 15+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years focused on platform engineering or cloud infrastructure at scale • Proven success designing and operating internal developer platforms in AWS environments • Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, including provisioning, cluster lifecycle management, workload orchestration, and multi-tenant design • Strong expertise in Terraform, GitOps tools (e.g., ArgoCD), and CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Spinnaker) • Deep understanding of cloud networking, IAM, service meshes, and container orchestration at scale • Familiar with the CNCF landscape and how to leverage open-source tools to solve platform problems • Passion for developer experience. You think about tooling, abstraction, reliability, and feedback loops as core parts of platform success • Track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and influencing engineering culture at a large scale • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience • Experience designing and operating Developer Platforms or building platform-as-a-service abstractions • Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and associated design trade-offs • Strong cost optimization and cloud governance expertise Benefits • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution • 401(k) Matching with immediate vesting on employer match • Flexible PTO • 8 paid holidays and 5 paid days for Annual Holiday Week • Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge) • 18 weeks paid parental leave • Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health • 2 volunteer days per year • Commuting benefits Company Overview • Highspot is a sales enablement platform that helps companies worldwide improve the performance of their sales teams. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Highspot has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 29 in 2025, 14 in 2024, 11 in 2023, 37 in 2022, 15 in 2021, 6 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job