--- title: 'Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering at SingleStore' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-engineer-platform-engineering-singlestore-united-states-5d5dmwb1byv8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-01' --- # Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering at SingleStore - **Company:** SingleStore - **Location:** United States - **Posted:** 2026-10-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-01 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/singlestore/jobs/8304127 ## 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. SingleStore’s total salary range for this role, if based in Boston, Chicago, New York, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Washington, or Dallas is: $140,000 - $215,000 USD per year 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 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: SingleStore provides a distributed, real-time SQL database platform designed for low-latency analytics, transactions, and AI workloads. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E; $964.2M total funding) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States - **Founded**: 2011 - **Founders**: Eric Frenkiel, Nikita Shamgunov, Adam Prout ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Database / Data Infrastructure / Real-Time Analytics - **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises and mid-market companies needing high-performance SQL for transactional and analytical workloads; also developers building data-intensive applications. - **Mission or purpose**: To be the one platform for all data, enabling enterprises to engage with insight in every moment and adapt to change as it happens. ## Products & Services - **SingleStore (Database Engine)**: A distributed, relational SQL database that handles transactions, analytics, and search in a single system. Supports JSON, geospatial, time-series, and vector data. - **SingleStore Helios**: The fully managed cloud service (DBaaS) that autonomously manages thousands of high-performance databases. - **Aura Analyst**: An AI-powered data analyst that converts natural language into accurate SQL queries and delivers insights. - **AI & ML Functions**: Built-in SQL functions for LLMs, embedding models, and machine learning (e.g., anomaly detection, classification, sentiment analysis). ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (last known valuation from Series E in 2020; total funding $964.2M) - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$100M (per LinkedIn), Total Funding $964.2M - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Vector Capital Management (parent company), with prior rounds including investors such as GV, Accel, and others. Key partners include major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and technology ecosystem players. - **Growth Signals**: 388 employees; operates in 18 countries; strong hiring in engineering (multiple open roles for senior software engineers, AI platforms, SRE). Recent product launches include Aura Analyst and AI/ML functions. LinkedIn follower growth of +14.4% year-over-year. ## Competitive Advantages - **Unified engine**: Combines transactions, analytics, and search in one system – eliminating complex pipelines and reducing data movement. - **Ultra-low latency**: Designed for petabyte-scale data with consistent sub-millisecond query performance, even under high concurrency. - **SQL-native AI**: Allows users to run LLMs, embedding models, and ML models directly in SQL, lowering the barrier for AI adoption. - **Flexible deployment**: On-premises, any cloud, Kubernetes, or fully managed (Helios). ## Strategic Focus - **AI integration**: Embedding AI capabilities directly into the database (Aura Analyst, AI Functions, ML Functions) to make data more actionable. - **Cloud growth**: Expanding Helios managed service and multi-cloud support (including Apache Iceberg integration). - **Enterprise scale**: Targeting high-concurrency, mission-critical workloads in industries like finance, e-commerce, and SaaS. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include “Customers First,” “Performance Driven,” “Innovation Forward,” and “Open & Honest Communication.” - **Remote/Hybrid**: Flexible work policy – “Contribute from Anywhere”; remote-friendly with offices in San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv. - **Benefits**: Comprehensive health/dental/vision, equity grants, flexible time off, parental leave, $500 home office stipend, fitness subsidy, Modern Health app subscription, charitable donation matching with paid volunteer time off, 401k, cell/internet stipend. - **Engineering culture**: Strong emphasis on systems-level programming (C++, distributed systems), AI platform development, and SRE. Teams are structured around Engine, Platform, Infrastructure, and Web. ## Sources 1. [singlestore.com](https://www.singlestore.com/) 2. [singlestore.com/careers](https://www.singlestore.com/careers/) 3. 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