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As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will lead critical platform projects across multiple teams to evolve runtimes and middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. You will be responsible for designing software solutions, performing performance profiling, and implementing complex API versioning and lifecycle strategies. Your daily work involves diagnosing cross-service issues, establishing observability baselines like SLOs and error budgets, and creating migration guides to improve developer experience. The role requires advanced skills in software architecture, secure coding practices, and system maintenance for high availability. You will also provide technical guidance and coaching to less experienced engineers while ensuring adherence to architectural standards. This position focuses on solving complex infrastructure challenges by building scalable systems, managing service reliability, and optimizing backend performance across various workloads to ensure seamless integration and consistent ecosystem functionality.