Principal Platform Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Spearhead impactful, cross-departmental initiatives including platform migrations and transformations.

• Lead initiatives such as cloud migrations (e.g., AWS to GCP), advancing architecture while maintaining continuity across all product and platform teams.

• Align cross-platform architecture.

• Establish consistent evolution of services, APIs, and platform capabilities across teams.

• Collaborate with internal platform teams to outline requirements for CI/CD, testing, deployment, and developer workflows.

• Ensure proper adoption of platform changes across services, maintaining clear contracts and minimizing friction.

• Propel architectural initiatives that cut across multiple domains.

• Manage large-scale projects that affect several teams and systems (e.g., migrations, re-architectures, platform shifts).

• Evaluate the impact across the entire software ecosystem and develop clear execution strategies.

• Decompose complex transitions into actionable plans for various teams.

• Act as a bridge between platform, infrastructure, and product teams.

• Facilitate execution across teams.

• Assist teams during significant transitions by offering guidance, best practices, and hands-on support.

• Identify and eliminate obstacles that hinder adoption or delivery.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid software engineering foundation.

• Experience in constructing and evolving intricate distributed systems involving multiple teams.

• Capacity to analyze system interactions, APIs, and integration points at scale.

• Proven experience in leading large-scale technical transformations.

• Demonstrated success in driving migrations or cross-functional initiatives (e.g., cloud migration, architectural evolution).

• Understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred), Kubernetes, and distributed systems.

• Strong grasp of cloud platforms.

• Ability to evaluate impact across numerous services and teams.

• Excellent capability to make trade-offs among teams, systems, and timelines.

• Proven track record of influencing without formal authority and fostering alignment across organizations.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across diverse technical domains.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• 401(k) with company matching.

• Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and flexible time off.

• Mental health support and wellness reimbursement.

• Career development and education assistance.

• A monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to assist with remote work-related expenses.

• An annual $200 home office reimbursement.