Are you a principal-level engineer passionate about building platforms that empower engineers to do their best work?
Join Camplight to work on high-impact engineering enablement initiatives, shaping the tools, platforms, and developer experiences that help engineering teams work smarter, build securely, and deliver software more efficiently. You’ll combine deep technical expertise, architectural leadership, and a forward-thinking approach to AI-assisted development to turn complex engineering challenges into scalable, production-ready solutions.
What you’ll be working on?
You’ll contribute to an engineering activation and tooling initiative focused on building and maintaining the platforms that engineers rely on every day. The broader ecosystem includes source code management, developer workflows, security automation, infrastructure, networking, and data tooling.
The goal is to create reliable, secure, and scalable engineering tools that simplify developers’ work, improve onboarding, and enable teams to build and ship software more effectively.
You’ll focus on developing custom-built internal tools and enablement platforms, transforming emerging engineering needs into reusable capabilities that can be adopted across multiple teams and domains.
From early proofs of concept to production-grade platforms, you’ll help establish solutions that balance technical excellence, long-term maintainability, security, and developer experience. You’ll also explore how AI-assisted development can accelerate delivery, improve productivity, and support the evolution of modern engineering practices.
Your Role
As an Engineering Activation Platform Lead, you’ll own the technical direction, architecture, and delivery of complex engineering tooling initiatives. This is a principal-level individual contributor role with significant technical influence, where your ability to solve difficult problems, guide other engineers, and make sound architectural decisions will be essential.
You’ll lead initiatives from initial discovery and experimentation through to production rollout, ensuring that successful solutions evolve into maintainable, reusable platforms. You’ll also serve as a technical authority within the team, helping engineers navigate complex challenges, reviewing critical design decisions, and establishing standards that raise the overall quality of engineering.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading the architecture, design, and implementation of custom engineering tools and enablement platforms.
- Owning technical strategy and key architectural decisions across complex, high-visibility initiatives.
- Providing day-to-day technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, helping them solve challenging problems and grow their expertise.
- Driving proofs of concept and MVPs for engineering onboarding, developer workflows, and self-service automation, taking successful solutions into production.
- Collaborating with source code management, security automation, infrastructure, networking, and data teams to identify shared needs and build scalable solutions.
- Establishing technical standards, reviewing significant designs and code, and promoting maintainable, secure, and reliable engineering practices.
- Investigating and resolving complex, high-impact production issues across platforms and systems.
- Driving adoption of the tools you build, gathering engineering feedback, and continuously improving the developer experience.
- Leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery, while reviewing AI-generated code for correctness, quality, security, and architectural alignment.
- Helping shape the team’s approach to AI-enabled engineering and emerging tooling integration standards.
About Camplight
We build self-organizing technical teams, offer software development services, and work with businesses and entrepreneurs to create new products.
With over 300 successful software projects, some ongoing for over 8 years, we strive for long-term success for our partners.
By following the principles of self-management and organizing as a cooperative, we achieve 95% satisfaction among them.
We seek the best talent to join us and value transparency, collaboration, trust, responsibility, and innovation.
When joining Camplight, you can become a co-owner of the cooperative, allowing you to steer the business and share in the rewards of our collective success.
What are we looking for?
- Ownership mindset: We value engineers who take responsibility for their work, exercise sound judgment, and see initiatives through from initial idea to successful adoption. You care about the quality, reliability, and long-term impact of the solutions you build.
- Technical leadership: You’re comfortable setting technical direction, making architectural decisions, and creating clarity in complex situations. You can guide engineers and influence technical outcomes without relying on formal management authority.
- Engineering excellence: You have deep, hands-on software engineering expertise and know how to choose the right technologies and architectural patterns for a given problem. You balance delivery speed with security, maintainability, scalability, and reliability.
- Developer experience mindset: You understand that internal platforms should make engineers more effective. You enjoy identifying recurring problems, simplifying workflows, and building reusable tools that teams genuinely want to adopt.
- Pragmatic innovation: You’re curious about emerging technologies, including AI-assisted development, but you evaluate them critically. You know how to use new tools to improve productivity without compromising code quality, security, or architectural integrity.
- Communication and collaboration: You communicate clearly with engineers, technical stakeholders, and business partners. You can explain complex technical decisions, align people around a shared direction, and work effectively across multiple engineering domains.
- Mentorship and continuous improvement: You enjoy helping others grow, sharing knowledge, reviewing designs and code, and raising engineering standards through collaboration and constructive feedback.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading the design and delivery of complex, custom-built systems at scale. Candidates with an MSc may qualify with 9+ years of experience.
- Demonstrated experience owning the technical direction of high-visibility engineering initiatives from concept through production.
- Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple software engineering technologies, programming languages, and architectural patterns.
- Strong understanding of DevOps practices and toolchains, including CI/CD pipelines, build and release automation, and infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, or GCP, networking fundamentals, and containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Working knowledge of security engineering principles, secure-by-design practices, and common software vulnerability classes.
- Proven experience designing, building, and scaling custom internal tools and platforms for engineers, such as developer portals, onboarding platforms, or self-service automation.
- Experience evaluating, selecting, and integrating enterprise engineering tools, balancing technical fit, cost, security, and developer experience.
- Demonstrated ability to technically lead and mentor engineers, guide day-to-day technical decisions, and support professional growth without formal people-management authority.
- Experience collaborating across engineering domains, including source code management, security, infrastructure, networking, and data.
- Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot or similar, including reviewing AI-generated code for quality, correctness, and security.
- A strong track record of investigating and resolving complex, high-impact issues across production systems and multiple teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical strategy to senior stakeholders and diverse engineering audiences.
The following qualifications are a plus:
- Broad exposure to modern engineering tooling, including artifact repositories, package managers, observability and monitoring platforms, secrets management, and developer portals.
- Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent technical authority across multiple teams or domains.
- Experience working in large, regulated enterprise environments, such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or financial services.
- A track record of progressing multiple proofs of concept through MVP development and full-scale production rollout.
- Experience leading distributed or cross-functional engineering teams on complex technical initiatives.
- Experience influencing enterprise-wide technical standards, reference architectures, or platform strategy.
- Contributions to the wider technical community through conference talks, technical publications, open-source projects, or industry working groups.
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar emerging AI-tool integration standards.
- Familiarity with enterprise-scale identity and access management or user provisioning.
- Experience defining engineering standards and best practices that are adopted across teams or organizations.
What do we offer?
We focus on health, wealth, and empowering relationships:
- Fully remote work with flexible work hours.
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to become a co-owner of the cooperative.
- Individual career development plan.
- Friendly team and company culture.
- Prioritization of mental and physical health in the workplace, with the freedom to make decisions about yourself and the support of peers committed to a healthy lifestyle.
- Empowering relationships that support engineering excellence alongside colleagues who value growth, shared responsibility, and craftsmanship in a unique environment that blends service and product development.
- Opportunities to influence technical direction, solve meaningful engineering challenges, and help shape the future of developer experience and engineering enablement.
What does the interview process look like?
- Initial Interview: We’ll start with a friendly 45-minute cultural and technical interview. Two members of our team will explore your background, engineering expertise, leadership experience, and approach to solving complex technical challenges. We’ll also discuss your expectations, preferred working environment, and how you approach collaboration and ownership.
- Technical Deep Dive: If there’s a match, you can choose between two options:
- Homework Assignment: We’ll provide a focused technical assignment designed to take around two hours to complete. This will be followed by a one-hour technical interview to discuss your solution, explore your architectural decisions, and dive deeper into your engineering experience.
- Pair Programming: If you prefer not to complete a homework assignment, we’ll arrange a two-hour technical deep-dive session focused primarily on pair programming and collaborative problem-solving.
Regardless of the outcome, we’ll provide you with constructive feedback to support your professional growth.
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PEA Registration Number and Date of the Certificate: 4003 / 10.10.2025
