Principal Engineer
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5 hours ago
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Job Summary
Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced engineer to lead and shape our Platform & AI Enablement team Trailblazers. This role combines two critical missions: building our internal developer platform with paved paths and development portal capabilities while pioneering AI-powered tools and practices that transform how our 300 engineers build software.
Our teams mission is to provide self-service capabilities to developers whichdrivesquality standardization and velocity across the entire organization. We believe in the principles of Platform Engineering toidentifythe pain pointsimpactingWorkhuman product teams and enable those teams by providing common reusable tools and capabilities via an internal developer platform (IDP). Simultaneouslywereat the forefront of AI enablement developing AI coding agents context engineering solutions and agentic IDE integrations that embed our architectural guidelines and best practices directly into developer workflows.
Tech StackUsed by Team
Platform Engineering: AWS Java ore.g.Python Terraform Jenkins Sonar Maven Gitlab CI/CD Git Docker/Containerization and lessfrequentlyweuse Spring RESTful APIs Apache Camel Apache Kafka Oracle DB PL/SQL PostgreSQL NoSQLJMeter.
AI Enablement(new area prior experience not expected):Claude (Anthropic) AWS Bedrock Large Language Models (LLMs) Model Context Protocol (MCP) Agentic workflows Context engineering Prompt engineering AI-assisted development tools
What We Can Offer You
An opportunity to technically lead our platform enablement team liaising with our product engineers to understand and solve engineering pain points
An opportunity to design and build out our best practice service templatesorchestrationand infrastructure
An opportunity to build and curate our Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
An opportunity to automate governance of our deployments at scale
An opportunity to build and deploy AI-powered developer tools that enable our engineers toleveragecutting-edgeAI capabilities safely and effectively
An opportunity toestablishAI enablement frameworks patterns and best practices across the engineering organization
The Skills You Will Bring
You are a strong engineer with proven experience in designing and building enterprise-scale systems. Ideally you have a Java background but equivalent experience with other object-oriented programming languages will be considered.
You have hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g.ECS ECR Lambda functions API Gateway S3 CloudFront AWS Batch CloudWatch...)and CI/CD pipelines.Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) isadvantageous.
You can evangelize and drive adoption of both platform capabilities and AI tools across a diverse engineering organization
Strong understanding of platform engineering principles and internal developer platform patterns
Experienceordemonstratedinterest in AI-powered development tools coding assistants or agentic workflows.
Understanding ofprompt engineering context engineering and AI safety consideration.
Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar AI integration frameworks
Achievements
You have experience in creating paved paths or best practice tools or servicesor haveworked on implementing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) in the past
You have successfully introduced AI capabilities or tools within an engineering organization
The Company:
At Workhuman our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you dont think you check every single box above please still consider applying. Were looking for a human who is collaborative innovative with a growth mindset
We love what we do because were shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the worlds leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank talk and celebrate each other creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:
We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large-sized workplace category. We were also recognised as the Best Workplace for Women and the Best Workplace in Technology inand 2022.
In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium-sized workplace category.
We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as the Best Place to Work in Boston U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.
There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman cloud across 180 countries.
Our core values are Respect Determination Innovation and Imagination.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based solely on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin sex (including pregnancy) age sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status past or present military service or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company and we seek to recruit develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
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Key Skills
- Design
- Academics
- AutoCAD 3D
- Cafe
- Fabrication
- Java
About Company
Workhuman® has been pioneering the human workplace for over 20 years. Discover how we help businesses reduce employee turnover and increase satisfaction.
