Principal Platform Engineer
Posted 2 days 1 hour ago by Fundamental Group
Fundamental XR is seeking a seasoned and hands on Platform/Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team.
In this crucial role, you will be responsible for guaranteeing the reliability, security, and scalability of our core technology stack and cloud infrastructure-directly supporting the organisation's business continuity and information security needs.
You will play a pivotal part in optimising daily operations across a diverse technology platform, advancing key strategic initiatives like data driven continuous delivery and ISO 27000 compliance.
This position reports directly to the CTO.
About UsFundamental XR is a global leader in immersive, data driven surgical training. We combine extended reality (XR), haptics, and performance analytics to help surgeons train more effectively, demonstrate competence, and reduce risk to patients-before they ever enter the operating theatre.
Our patented HapticVR technology delivers realistic, hands on simulation without the constraints of traditional training. Built on a hardware agnostic platform, Fundamental XR enables scalable, high fidelity training anywhere in the world-removing the need for costly wet labs, animal testing, or cadavers.
Trusted by leading medical institutions and industry partners, we're setting a new standard for surgical education, skills validation, and patient safety.
Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Ownership- Serve as the primary engineer for the platform team, overseeing the support and maintenance of the core technology stack (licensing, authentication, build environments, release management, and CMS backend).
- Lead the architecture and technical direction of our AWS and Serverless based platforms. Establish environment structures, define service design patterns, and maintain conventions for new services and shared libraries.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD workflows (for NodeJS, React, Unity, and Electron applications) that are reliable, fast, and scalable. Evolve release strategies as products grow.
- Act as the subject matter expert for operational tooling and observability, including system logging, monitoring, alerting, and performance/error monitoring. Drive the adoption of advanced monitoring solutions and introduce tracing to enable systematic improvements following incidents.
- Lead technical efforts on backend security, including ISO 27001 initiatives. Design robust IAM policies, secrets management systems, and secure access control mechanisms within AWS.
- Guide and participate in incident response. Diagnose and resolve production issues, document learnings, and automate improvements through runbooks and system hardening.
- Constantly enhance developer experience by simplifying local setups, building and maintaining automation scripts, CLIs, and templates to improve development, testing, and deployment workflows.
- Provide strong technical vision within the platform team, championing best practices, leading design discussions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers.
- Advanced experience with backend web services (TypeScript / NodeJS), including integration with React and Electron frontends.
- Skilled with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure (networking, IAM, security, cost management) and Serverless Framework.
- Proven track record in maintaining infrastructure via IaaC principles. Confident leveraging AI tooling to expedite administrative and development tasks.
- Comprehensive knowledge of DevOps practices and hands on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions). Ability to develop automations for self service tooling.
- Expert in monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, logging, metrics).
- Strong emphasis on security, performance, scalability, and reliability. Commitment to upholding and promoting industry best practices.
- Service driven mindset; experienced with user research, roadmapping, and key metrics analysis (e.g., onboarding time, adoption rates).
- Collaborative communicator who enjoys providing technical leadership and mentorship.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced startup environment and motivated by high impact responsibility.
- Driven to achieve high standards while remaining pragmatic and adaptive.
- Highly collaborative and skilled at communicating technical vision to diverse audiences.
- Proactively identify and address issues, using challenges as opportunities for collective team growth.