# Principal Platform Engineer at Altana AI

- Company: Altana AI
- What the company does: Backed by GV.
- Company website: https://altana.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Brooklyn, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $295K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/altanaai/jobs/8034201003?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altana-ai-principal-platform-engineer/

## About the role

Altana is looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to be the technical authority for the platform our products run on. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting to the Senior Director of Platform Engineering, for someone who steers architecture across organizational boundaries rather than inside one team's backlog. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure and platforms, including time as the recognized technical authority for a platform other engineering teams depended on
- A background in SRE or platform engineering , with real ownership of systems that other engineers built on top of
- Production experience building and operating environments in AWS and/or Azure at multi-account, multi-environment scale
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or similar tools
- Deep Kubernetes experience , including cluster management, multi-cluster operations, and the platform abstractions built on top of it
- GitOps as your deployment model , with hands-on experience running ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent in production

Tags: DevSec Operations

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altana-ai-principal-platform-engineer/