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# Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering at SingleStore-LinkedIn

- **Company:** SingleStore-LinkedIn
- **Location:** United States
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/singlestore-linkedin/jobs/8304125

## Job description

Position overview

SingleStore is seeking a Principal Cloud Network & Reliability Engineer to lead the architecture, reliability, and automation of the network foundations supporting our engineering organization.

This is a senior hands-on technical role spanning cloud networking, site reliability engineering, infrastructure automation, and platform architecture across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.

The ideal candidate combines deep networking expertise with strong software and infrastructure engineering skills. They should be comfortable operating across organizational boundaries, driving technical decisions, improving reliability, and identifying adjacent problems that need ownership rather than limiting themselves strictly to a predefined scope.

This role also provides senior technical coverage during U.S. business hours and acts as a key architecture partner to Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, IT, InfoSec, and product engineering teams.

What you’ll do:

- Define cloud networking architecture and standards across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.
- Design and evolve routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, ingress/egress, DNS, VPN, private connectivity, and cloud-to-data-center networking.
- Lead technical direction for private-access technologies such as Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, bastions, and related access patterns.
- Establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, recovery procedures, and operational standards for critical network services.
- Lead diagnosis and mitigation of significant networking, connectivity, and infrastructure incidents, and drive permanent remediation.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.
- Build reusable infrastructure patterns and automation that enable safe self-service for platform and engineering teams.
- Improve infrastructure change safety through automated validation, required review, observability, change logging, and rollback practices.
- Partner with Cloud Platform, Developer Platform, Systems Engineering, IT, InfoSec, and SRE teams on architecture that crosses networking, infrastructure, identity, security, and reliability domains.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point during U.S. business hours.
- Create architecture standards, decision records, runbooks, and operational practices that reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
- Mentor engineers and raise networking, infrastructure, and reliability expertise across the organization.
- Identify architectural and operational gaps beyond the immediate networking domain and help drive them to resolution.

Your Experience:

- Deep experience designing and operating complex production cloud networks in at least one major cloud provider, with meaningful experience in a second.
- Strong knowledge of routing, subnetting, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, DNS, VPN, ingress/egress, and private connectivity.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting complex production network and infrastructure failures.
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or comparable infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Experience building infrastructure automation using Python, Go, or a comparable programming language.
- Strong SRE experience including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery engineering, and reliability improvement.
- Experience operating Kubernetes or adjacent cloud-platform infrastructure.
- Experience designing safe infrastructure change and deployment practices.
- Ability to lead architecture decisions across multiple engineering organizations without formal authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture documents, standards, runbooks, and incident reviews.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, distribute technical knowledge, and influence technical direction at Principal level.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- AWS Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, or equivalent cloud-network technologies.
- GCP Cloud Router, Interconnect, Shared VPC, Private Service Connect, or equivalent technologies.
- Azure Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Private Link, or equivalent technologies.
- BGP and hybrid cloud/data-center networking.
- Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, or comparable private-access technologies.
- NetBox or other IPAM/DCIM platforms.
- Kubernetes CNI or advanced Kubernetes networking experience.
- Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, CloudWatch, PagerDuty, Pingdom, or comparable observability tools.
- Experience with IAM and identity technologies such as Okta, Keycloak, FreeIPA, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, JIT access, certificates, secrets management, or privileged-access systems.
- Experience building policy-as-code, infrastructure guardrails, or automated deployment controls.
- Experience in large multi-account, multi-project, hybrid-cloud, or enterprise-scale infrastructure environments.

About us:

SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package.

For candidates residing in California, please see our[California Recruitment Privacy Notice](https://www.singlestore.com/singlestore-california-recruitment-privacy-notice/). For candidates residing in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, please see our[EEA, UK, and Swiss Recruitment Privacy Notice.](https://www.singlestore.com/recruitment-privacy/)

Req ID: ENG00523

## About SingleStore-LinkedIn

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SingleStore is a real-time distributed SQL database platform that enables enterprises to run transactions and analytics on a single system for intelligent, data-intensive applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; parent company Vector Capital Management)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov, Adam Prout

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Database software / Real-time data platform (RDBMS, cloud data services)
- **Target customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise, spanning industries like finance, e-commerce, SaaS, and AI-driven applications
- **Mission/purpose**: “One platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment” – enabling real-time decision-making and AI workloads.

## Products & Services
- **SingleStore (Database Engine)**: Distributed, relational SQL database that supports transactions, analytics, JSON, geospatial, key-value, vector, and time-series data. Deployable on-premises, in any cloud, via Kubernetes, or as a managed service.
- **SingleStore Helios**: Fully managed cloud database service (DBaaS) for simplified deployment and scaling.
- **SingleStore Aura**: AI-powered performance optimization and management layer (mentioned on homepage).
- **Data Lake Integration**: Supports Apache Iceberg and other open table formats for hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; last known funding round $964M total raised)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$100M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding $964.2M across 13 rounds (seed through Series E and later rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by Vector Capital (parent), with prior investors including prominent venture firms (e.g., from Series rounds). Partners include cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data ecosystem players.
- **Growth Signals**: 388 employees with offices in US, UK, Portugal, India, Ukraine, Canada, Singapore, Japan, France, Australia. Recent acquisitions of MEMSQL Portugal and SingleStore UK. Active hiring in engineering, sales, and operations (14+ open positions as of mid-2026). LinkedIn follower growth +14.4% yearly.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified HTAP**: Combines transactions and analytics in a single system, eliminating the need for separate databases and ETL pipelines.
- **Real-time performance**: Sub-millisecond queries on petabyte-scale data with ANSI SQL support.
- **Deployment flexibility**: On-prem, cloud, hybrid, Kubernetes – runs anywhere Linux runs.
- **Vector & AI capabilities**: Native support for vector search and time-series, positioning for enterprise AI workloads.
- **Strong engineering talent pool**: Employees recruited from top tech companies (Microsoft, Google, AWS, Oracle, Snowflake, Databricks) and top universities.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise AI enablement**: Optimizing the platform for AI/ML workloads (vector databases, real-time inference).
- **Cloud expansion**: Growing Helios (DBaaS) and multi-cloud support (Aura platform).
- **Data lake integration**: Deepening support for open formats like Apache Iceberg to compete in the lakehouse space.
- **Global scaling**: Expanding sales and engineering presence in India, Portugal, and other regions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Customers First, Performance Driven, Innovation Forward, Open & Honest Communication” – values emphasized on careers page.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: “Work remotely if it makes sense for you, your position, your team, and the company.” Many roles remote or hybrid; offices in SF, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Raleigh, London, Lisbon, Kyiv, Hyderabad, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, 401k, flexible time off, parental leave, stock grants (equity), home office stipend ($500), cell/internet stipend, fitness subsidy, Modern Health app, charitable donation matching with paid volunteer time off, fertility/family formation reimbursement.
- **Engineering culture**: High performance, modern tech stack (distributed systems, cloud-native, AI platforms). Strong internal mobility and career development.
- **Employee ratings**: 4.0/5.0 overall on LinkedIn (Work-Life 4.0, Compensation 4.0, Culture 3.8, Career 3.9).

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/singlestore)
2. [SingleStore Careers Page](https://www.singlestore.com/careers/)
3. [SingleStore Jobs (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/singlestore-linkedin)
4. [SingleStore Homepage](https://www.singlestore.com/)

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