*This role is hybrid, 3 days per week in our offices at Parkwest Business Park, Dublin.***The Opportunity**We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to lead and shape our Platform Technologies team, Foundation. This role is critical to building and maintaining the core technical infrastructure that powers Workhuman's entire engineering organization. You'll be responsible for the foundational platform technologies that enable 300+ engineers to build reliable, observable, and highly performant distributed systems.Our Foundation squad owns the technical bedrock of Workhuman's platform architecture. We solve complex, low-level platform challenges that most engineers never need to think about—messaging infrastructure, distributed tracing, observability at scale, service-to-service communication patterns, and the deep technical systems that enable teams to focus on delivering business value. We believe in building robust, standards-based solutions that provide excellent developer experience while maintaining operational excellence.Work with architects and senior engineers to shape platform architecture and establish standards that the entire engineering organisation depends onMake complex platform capabilities simple and accessible through excellent developer experience and robust frameworks **The Skills You Will Bring** Experience with OpenTelemetry instrumentation, distributed tracing, and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)Proven ability to balance cost, performance, and visibility in large-scale platform systems
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