Principal Platform Engineer

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 Us

Fundamental 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).

Cloud Architecture & Development

• 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.

Continuous Delivery & Release Management

• 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.

Observability & Operations

• 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.

Security & Compliance

• Lead technical efforts on backend security, including ISO 27001 initiatives. Design robust IAM policies, secrets management systems, and secure access control mechanisms within AWS.

Reliability Engineering

• Guide and participate in incident response. Diagnose and resolve production issues, document learnings, and automate improvements through runbooks and system hardening.

Developer Experience (DevEx)

• Constantly enhance developer experience by simplifying local setups, building and maintaining automation scripts, CLIs, and templates to improve development, testing, and deployment workflows.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Provide strong technical vision within the platform team, championing best practices, leading design discussions, conducting code reviews, and mentoring engineers.

Required Skills & Experience

Application Engineering

• 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).

Cloud & Serverless

• Deep expertise with AWS infrastructure (networking, IAM, security, cost management) and Serverless Framework.

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaaC) & AI Tools

• Proven track record in maintaining infrastructure via IaaC principles. Confident leveraging AI tooling to expedite administrative and development tasks.

DevOps & CI/CD

• 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.

Monitoring

• Expert in monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, logging, metrics).

Security & Best Practices

• Strong emphasis on security, performance, scalability, and reliability. Commitment to upholding and promoting industry best practices.

Leadership

• 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.

About You

• 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.