Cloud Architect

As a Cloud Architect, you will serve as a technical focal point, driving strategic architectural decisions that shape the future of our globally distributed platform.Platform & Scale Leadership: Lead the architectural efforts to modernize and significantly scale the companys infrastructure across multiple geographies and heterogeneous cloud providers.Cross-Organizational Influence: Work with other groups in the organization to deeply understand their needs and translate them into concrete, production-ready capabilities and platform offerings.Multi-Cloud Data Strategy: Define and champion a comprehensive, petabyte-scale multi-cloud data strategy, ensuring optimal data governance, security, and cost-efficient flow for streaming ingestion, data lakes, and advanced analytics workloads across environments.Microservices Design & Resilience: Provide high-level architectural oversight for the multi-cloud design patterns of our microservices, focusing on cross-cloud resilience, global traffic management, data locality, and failure domain isolation.AI Transformation Leadership: Lead the AI transformation initiatives aimed at radically enhancing the developer experience, introducing intelligent automation, and leveraging generative AI models to accelerate software delivery, testing, and operational efficiency.Strategic Alignment: Foster cross-group alignment and build consensus among engineering leaders and business stakeholders for strategic platform projects, translating complex technical roadmap items into clear, measurable business outcomes.Architecture Definition: Help define the technical vision, architecture, and long-term directions of the Cloud Platform group and the wider R&D organization.Engineering Excellence: Be a champion for engineering excellence, setting high standards, mentoring engineers across the group to foster solid architectural principles, and supporting their professional growth.Architect Forum Participation: Be a key member of the companys architect forum, participate in complex technical discussions, and facilitate effective, org-wide decision-making processes.Requirements: What You Have:10 years of software development and platform engineering experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership positions within a large-scale SaaS or distributed systems environment.Expert-level proficiency in AWS Cloud, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating scalable, global, high-availability infrastructure.Deep Multi-Cloud Expertise: Significant, demonstrable experience in designing and implementing systems that span at least two major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).Expert-level knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes internals (operators, controllers, networking, security).Data Experience: Proven experience designing and optimizing large-scale data platforms, including streaming architectures (Kafka/Kinesis), data warehousing, and distributed file systems.Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and their advanced implementations (e.g., GitOps, progressive delivery, from testing to production).A people person, optimistic, and visionary, with a can-do approach and the ability to lead complex and sensitive decision-making processes in an effective manner while creating a positive, collaborative, and pleasant atmosphere.Proven experience mentoring and coaching high-potential engineers to develop new skills and grow professionally.Bonus Points:Recommended by our employee.This position is open to all candidates.