Distinguished Engineer – Systems Architecture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Define the comprehensive architecture of the platform, technical strategy, system reliability, and security measures for identity and platform services.

• Design large-scale end-to-end platforms.

• Create prototypes to evaluate feasibility.

• Develop architectural blueprints.

• Act as the leading subject matter expert during critical production incidents necessitating extensive system-wide diagnostics.

• Identify business and technical specifications for performance, security, reliability, scalability, and sustainability in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Design, document, and sustain blueprints for large-scale systems infrastructure, virtual application topologies, multi-region data persistence, and inter-network API gateways.

• Design and execute First Office Applications, proof-of-concept models, and benchmarks.

• Collaborate with technology operations to drive changes in the production environment and ensure platform stability.

• Serve as the main escalation point for critical, system-wide production outages across cloud networks, Kubernetes orchestration, distributed SQL databases, and IAM services.

• Manage security posture, compliance frameworks, and the lifecycle of infrastructure.

• Conduct technical assessments of AWS IAM, KMS, and CloudTrail environments.

• Oversee system cost optimizations and address vulnerabilities across virtual and physical environments.

• Provide a technological vision for the transformation of platforms and networks.

• Lead cross-functional engineering teams, support system architectures, mitigate upstream/downstream impacts, and manage technology lifecycle planning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.

• At least eight years of pertinent experience, demonstrated through work and/or military service or specialized training.

• Proven experience in systems architecture, showcasing leadership in designing large-scale enterprise systems.

• Familiarity with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud-native platform blueprints, API gateway design, and cross-system protocol design.

• Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, PKCE, JWT, and CIBA.

• Advanced expertise in cloud computing and AWS ecosystems, including EKS, IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Cost Explorer, and networking.

• Experience in multi-region system deployment and principles of infrastructure-as-code.

• Profound understanding of distributed systems topologies, distributed databases such as CockroachDB and Spanner, data replication, transaction isolation behavior, and storage architectures.

• Capability to lead cross-functional architecture reviews, perform requirements analysis, conduct system benchmarking, and mentor engineering teams utilizing Agile methodologies.

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is considered an 'even better' qualification; MS, MBA, or equivalent experience is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability insurance.

• Basic and supplemental life insurance.

• AD&D insurance.

• Identity theft protection.

• Pet insurance.

• Group home and auto insurance.

• Matched 401(k) savings plan.

• Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year.

• Up to 6 personal days per year.

• Paid parental leave.

• Adoption assistance.

• Tuition assistance.

• Premium pay options such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances, depending on the role.

• Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, increasing with additional service.

• Incentive-based compensation with potential to earn additional income.