Principal Engineer

Job Description:

This role is hybrid, 3 days per week in our offices at Parkwest Business Park, Dublin.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to lead and shape our Platform Technologies team, Foundation. This role is critical to building and maintaining the core technical infrastructure that powers Workhuman's entire engineering organization. You'llbe responsible for the foundational platform technologies that enable 300+ engineers to build reliable, observable, and highly performant distributed systems. 

Our Foundation squad owns the technical bedrock of Workhuman's platform architecture. We solve complex, low-level platform challenges that most engineers never need to think about—messaging infrastructure, distributed tracing, observability at scale, service-to-service communication patterns, and the deep technical systems that enable teams to focus on delivering business value. We believe in building robust, standards-b...