Principal Engineer - Platform Foundations

In short

Everything we build in Technology at On fuels our mission to ignite the human spirit through movement. We craft technology that improves with every interaction. Delivering "Wow" through our platforms, apps, and services is a core value. As the Principal Engineer for Platform Foundations, you are the hands‑on technical leader for our infrastructure. Acting as the Individual Contributor (IC) counterpart to the Director of Technology, you are the primary architect and hands‑on lead for the systems that empower every engineer  design the "Golden Path", ensuring our bedrock is rapid, secure, and resilient.

• Engineering Excellence:
  You have 10+ years of experience evolving complex engineering cultures. You are a "builder" who believes in internal ownership and leading technical decision‑making across multiple teams
• Platform Product Mindset:
  You treat your platform as a product. You have a track record of creating intuitive developer portals (IDPs) and tools that reduce cognitive load for product teams
• Cloud Authority:
  You possess deep expertise in cloud architecture (We use GCP). Specific experience leading cloud migrations and designing multi‑region, resilient foundations is a critical differentiator
• Edge Engineering:
  You have deep experience architecting for high‑performance including Edge/CDNs, API Gateways, and Service Mesh. You view the edge not just as a delivery layer, but as a critical component for security, traffic shaping, and ensuring minimum latency
• Standardised Service Scaffolding:
  You have experience architecting "Golden Path" templates that embed observability, security, and testing into the service lifecycle. While our core stack is Node.js, Type Script, and React, you are comfortable across languages and eager to integrate agentic workflows and AI‑driven code generation to scale productivity
• Hands‑on Mentor:
  You are a servant leader. You enjoy being in the code and on the command line, coaching teams to improve operational excellence and helping them identify complex architectural trade‑offs