Principal Platform Engineer – Kubernetes Reliability and Distributed Systems
Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Posted Nov 10, 2026
- Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time · Principal
- $157K–$361K per year
Lead technical architecture and operations for Kubernetes-based platform reliability and distributed systems.
Compensation
The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. – United States of America: Annual Salary USD 165,500 - 313,500 in Colorado // 157,000 - 361,000 in North Carolina
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior technical authority for Kubernetes platform architecture, reliability, and operational behavior.
- Own the investigation and resolution of complex issues involving pod failover, service availability, control plane operation, network timeouts, resource scheduling, and cluster capacity.
- Define and drive improvements to Kubernetes high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster-recovery strategies.
- Establish clear technical ownership and operating models for platform capabilities.
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation of platform improvements across multiple engineering teams.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Kubernetes distributions (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift)
- Nice to have: service meshes
- Nice to have: ingress controllers
- Nice to have: CNI plugins
- Nice to have: CSI storage