Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

The Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer mentors engineering teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. This role identifies and eliminates performance and scalability bottlenecks for hyperscale workloads, defines scalability requirements with stakeholders, and designs elastic, high-impact systems while driving innovation in data plane platforms.

The engineer architects and oversees fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems, optimizes resilience mechanisms such as load shedding, throttling, and rate limiting, and establishes SLO-aligned standards for durability and availability across dependent services. The role also defines KPIs and advanced telemetry, applies formal verification techniques for complex features, and develops robust replication and synchronization strategies.

Additionally, this position leads the resolution of complex production issues, establishes operational readiness and standard operating procedures, directs incident response and root cause analyses, architects advanced security controls, drives compliance and remediation efforts, and delivers enterprise-scale automation through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated patching, updates, and rollback strategies.

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This role will mentor teams and leads the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems.