--- title: 'Principal Platform Engineer (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) at Anaplan' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-platform-engineer-high-availability-disaster-recovery-anaplan-gurugram-wfq51n22t2nw' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-14' --- # Principal Platform Engineer (High Availability & Disaster Recovery) at Anaplan - **Company:** Anaplan - **Location:** Gurugram, India - **Posted:** 2026-07-23 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anaplan/jobs/8634036002 ## Job description At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, [values](https://www.anaplan.com/careers/)-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! Principle Platform DR & Capacity Engineer At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! Your impact As the Principal HA & DR Engineer, you will own the architectural strategy and technical execution for the platform's resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery lifecycle. You will design, build, and deliver technical solutions that support Platform availability, resiliency, and disaster response. You will act as the principal authority for business continuity across our global infrastructure, defining the guardrails for system fault-tolerance and leading cross-functional coordination for multi-region disaster preparedness between both cloud and on prem. You will also design automated failover mechanisms, champion chaos engineering practices, and develop robust mitigation strategies to eliminate single points of failure across both cloud and on-premises infrastructure. You will : - Drive the HA Strategy & Roadmap: Own the end-to-end design and technical execution of our global High Availability roadmap, ensuring continuous platform uptime across both cloud and on-premises environments. - Build & Implement HA Architectures: Hand-on code, configure, and engineer active-active clustering, global load balancing, and real-time database replication to completely eliminate single points of failure. - Establish the Resiliency Practice: Build and champion our foundational Resiliency Engineering framework from scratch, defining platform-wide standards for fault tolerance and self-healing. - Influence Engineering Teams: Partner with and influence cross-functional engineering squads to ensure self-healing mechanisms and automated recovery protocols are embedded directly into their core deliverables. - Bootstrap Chaos Engineering: Introduce and champion our first-ever Chaos Engineering program; you will define the strategy, establish the safe guardrails, and prepare the organization to execute its initial automated fault-injection and live-fire failover drills. - Build & Implement HA Architectures: Hand-on code, configure, and engineer active-active clustering, global load balancing, and real-time database replication to completely eliminate single points of failure. - Optimize Uptime & Manage Risks: Monitor infrastructure performance KPIs to identify potential bottlenecks, mitigate shortage or overload risks before they cause downtime, and ensure compliance with strict Customer SLA requirements. ## Your skills and experience We work with a broad range of technologies, and we don’t expect you to know everything on day one. You’ll have time to learn our tools and grow into the role. We're looking for diverse experiences to help strengthen our team. Essential - 8+ Years of HA Engineering: Extensive HA experience across cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and on-premises environments. - Technical Influence: Proven ability to evangelize resiliency standards and influence cross-functional engineering teams to build self-healing features. - Failover & Replication: Hands-on expertise with real-time data replication, database clustering, and automated, zero-downtime traffic failover. - Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced proficiency with Terraform or Ansible to build and replicate highly available environments programmatically. - Systems & Container Engineering: Deep technical knowledge of Linux internals and container orchestration using Kubernetes (K8s). - Hybrid Network Engineering: Hands-on experience managing complex hybrid networking topologies, including BGP routing, DNS management, Anycast, and CDNs. -   Strategic Execution: Ability to translate high-level uptime requirements into a technical roadmap and personally execute the engineering work. Desirable - Experience supporting SaaS products. - Experience with Incident Management, Post Mortems and related practices. - Knowledge of observability and monitoring best practices. - Experience operating within one or more public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure). - Experience with configuration management, and infrastructure as code - Knowledge of observability and monitoring best practices Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals. Anaplan does not: - Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person. - Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication. All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence. Candidate data processed during our recruitment activities is handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice. This may include the use of artificial intelligence or automated tools to assist our team in evaluating qualifications. ## About Anaplan ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Anaplan provides an AI-driven scenario planning and analysis platform that helps businesses optimize decision-making across finance, supply chain, sales, and HR. - **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2023; previously public under ticker PLAN on NYSE) - **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, United States - **Founded**: 2006 - **Founders**: Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, Michael Gould ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Enterprise software, business planning, financial planning & analysis, supply chain planning, sales performance management, workforce planning - Target customers: B2B – large enterprises, including Fortune 50 companies - Mission or purpose statement: “Outpredict. Outplan. Outperform.” – to optimize decision-making so customers can outpace their competition and the market. ## Products & Services - **[Anaplan Platform]**: Cloud-based SaaS platform for connected scenario planning, analysis, and reporting. Includes AI-powered features for predictive insights, generative analysis, and deterministic calculations. Designed for enterprise planning use cases in finance, supply chain, sales, marketing, and HR. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held by Thoma Bravo; prior to acquisition in 2022, market cap was ~$6.2B; current valuation not disclosed) - **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $592.2M (latest available) and 1,958 employees (+15.7% YoY growth) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Owner: Thoma Bravo (private equity). Ecosystem includes 250+ partners. - **Growth Signals**: 48% of the Fortune 50 are customers; 2,600+ market-leading customers; 90% acceleration in key planning cycles; 95% faster territory planning; 99%+ uptime; recognized as a 9X Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-driven decision infrastructure** combining LLM probabilistic power with a deterministic calculation engine for auditable, accurate answers. - **Proprietary data ontology** for finance, supply chain, retail, sales, and operations that embeds business context directly into AI insights. - **Highly integrated platform** unifying data across sources and workflows, enabling real-time, forward-looking scenarios. - **Domain-specific intelligent applications** with built-in best practices and role-based agents. - **Scale and adoption** – used by 48% of the Fortune 50 and 50% of the world’s 20 most valuable companies. ## Strategic Focus - Accelerating AI-driven scenario planning and decision-making (“Agentic Enterprise”). - Expanding platform capabilities with generative AI and role-based agents. - Deepening integrations across systems and workflows to deliver time-to-value. - Growing partner ecosystem and customer base in enterprise segments. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven “I ACT REAL” culture emphasizing innovation, accountability, collaboration, transparency, and resilience. - **Flexibility**: Hybrid work model (“One Connected Team”). Remote options available for many roles. - **Growth**: Opportunities to work with cutting-edge AI and planning technology alongside a global team of innovators. Competitive compensation and total rewards approach. - **Diversity & Inclusion**: Inclusive workplace where diverse backgrounds and experiences are valued. Equal opportunity employer with accommodations for disabilities. - **Global Presence**: Offices in 13 countries with remote/hybrid roles across the US, UK, India, and more. ## Sources 1. [anaplan.com](https://www.anaplan.com/about/) 2. [anaplan.com](https://www.anaplan.com/) 3. [anaplan.com](https://www.anaplan.com/careers/) 4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/anaplan) 5. 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