Principal Architect - Platform Engineering

September 24

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Description

•Collaborate and communicate with Platform Engineering teams to design, develop, and champion best-practices, patterns and standards for all cloud infrastructure. •Work closely with our CTO and other architects to create holistic technology solutions for our customers. This requires an equal part collaboration with the product management and engineering management. •Produce clear, detailed and actionable design documents, architecture blueprints, architectural decisions with context, decision and tradeoffs. •Be involved in hands-on development of proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and real production-ready code. •Mentor engineers on architecture best practices and standards. •Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle- design, implement, test, deploy, and support services in production. •Maintain a culture of code quality through rigorous testing, automation, and code reviews. •Be proactive and innovative- we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product. •Be a part of a team that believes in the core values of transparency, collaboration, grit, and humility; in going above and beyond what is required in order to do the right thing for our customers and the company; and in having fun while doing all this!

Requirements

•12+ years experience in software architecture, design and development in a Cloud SaaS environment. •Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services. •Strong experience in Observability solutions using Grafana, Honeycomb, Prometheus, DataDog and Open Telemetry. •Hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Configuration Management, and Release Management. •Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

•Flexible work hours and flexible PTO •Competitive health benefits •VGS stock options •401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees) •Life & disability insurance •Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees) •Global parental leave program •Employee Assistance Program •Home Internet reimbursement •New hire home office set up allowance •Professional learning reimbursement