Sr Architect – Distributed Cloud

Sr Architect – Distributed Cloud

Requirements

• 15+ years in architecture leadership roles, with 5+ years in a Chief Architect or Principal Architect capacity for a global SaaS or cloud platform.
• Proven experience designing and operating multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available SaaS services at global scale.
• Deep technical expertise in CDN, edge computing, routing, load balancing, DDoS mitigation, and application layer security.
• Understanding of containers and orchestration technologies.
• Broad understanding of coding and programming languages.
• Extensive knowledge of the software development process and corresponding technologies.
• Excellent understanding of design patterns and architectural styles.
• Proficient knowledge of the operation and development designs of agile software.
• Strong soft skills, including attention to detail, problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Set long-term architectural direction, guiding major technology choices and innovation areas.
• Influence and shape technical strategy across networking, service discovery, workload orchestration, configuration management, and telemetry.
• Oversee architectural governance, ensuring design consistency, risk management, and scalability across teams and services.
• Establish architectural guardrails and principles for service isolation, zero trust, multi-region resilience, performance, and developer velocity.
• Drive cross-functional alignment among product, security, infrastructure, SRE, and development teams to ensure coherent, secure, and customer-driven architecture.
• Collaborate with product, SRE, and development teams to define scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant designs aligned with platform goals.
• Mentor senior architects and technical leads, growing architecture talent and fostering technical leadership across the organization.
• Represent Distributed Cloud architecture and capabilities to executive stakeholders, customers, and external forums.
• Ensure all components and systems are designed with operability, testability, compliance, and security as first principles.
• Work closely with product and development teams to ensure software and product architectures are developed in line with the vision and future direction of the company.
• Drive architectural reviews, design validations, and threat models to ensure operational, security, and scalability concerns are addressed early.
• Partner with management on driving product timelines.
• Lead technical due diligence, competitive assessments, and horizon scanning for new technologies and paradigms.
• Lead software development projects.
• Ensure the documenting and recording every aspect of Distributed Cloud.
• Planning, tracking and scheduling software deliverables.
• Ensure teams can identify problems within software systems and driving issues to resolution.
• Developing good working relationships with other employees and senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.