# Principal Software Engineer (Infra/Platform) at Gradial

- Company: Gradial
- What the company does: Gradial helps enterprise marketing teams execute campaigns faster with AI agents that author, optimize, tag, and QA work across AEM, Salesforce, Jira, and more. Backed by Insight and Madrona.
- Company website: https://www.gradial.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gradial/jobs/4290694009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gradial-principal-software-engineer-infra-platform/

## About the role

As a Principal Software Engineer (Infra/Platform) at Gradial, you will shape the foundation our platform runs on as we scale. You will work closely with the CTO and engineering team to make our systems faster, more resilient, and easier to operate in a high-growth environment. This is a hands-on individual contributor leadership role for someone who wants real ownership, high leverage, and the opportunity to define how platform reliability looks at an AI-native company.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related roles with direct ownership of production systems
- Proven success designing and operating production-grade infrastructure in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, cloud-native architecture, and container orchestration
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD workflows, and modern deployment practices
- Strong command of observability and reliability fundamentals across metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response
- A track record of leading through influence, making sound technical decisions, and raising the bar across engineering teams

Tags: Engineering