Principal Platform Engineer I

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Role Overview
You will join the Datastore Team, a core component of the Smarsh Fabric platform that underpins our enterprise applications. The team enables self-service, next-generation data capabilities across the engineering organization, ensuring long-term scalability, reliability, and innovation.
This role serves as a technical authority for large-scale distributed data platforms. You will shape architectural direction, help define operating standards, and solve complex distributed systems challenges across petabyte-scale environments running hundreds of clusters. Working across engineering domains, you will influence how data infrastructure is designed, built, and operated company-wide.