Software Engineering Architect - Platform

Description

We are seeking a highly seasoned and expert Software Engineering Architect to lead the design and scaling of one of the world's largest Kubernetes deployments. This critical role involves architecting a robust, secure, and highly reliable container platform that powers thousands of microservices and other services across diverse environments.

The ideal candidate possesses a profound technical understanding of distributed systems, container orchestration, and infrastructure development, coupled with a passion for designing platforms that are easy for other software engineers to build, test, and operate on. You will work on real-world, massive scale problems, collaborate with top-tier engineers, and directly influence the strategic direction of our core container platform across multiple substrates.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy & Design: Lead the architectural design and evolution of our large-scale, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform to ensure it meets requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Integration: Define and implement platform tooling and APIs to optimize the SDLC for thousands of microservices, with a focus on application development and deployment pipelines.
• Scale and Performance: Architect solutions to handle massive, ever-increasing service and infrastructure scale, ensuring high availability and low latency across the deployment, paying close attention to performance tuning.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a subject matter expert and technical leader, guiding platform implementation teams and ensuring alignment with best practices in platform and software engineering.
• Microservices Architecture: Define and evangelize resilient software design patterns and best practices for building, deploying, and managing thousands of microservices on the container platform.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Partner closely with infrastructure, security, and application development teams to integrate platform components seamlessly and define clear interfaces for engineering efficiency.
• System Reliability: Design systems that are inherently resilient, self-healing, and easy to monitor and troubleshoot, driving down operational complexity for our application engineers.
  
  

Essential Qualifications

• Experience: 15 years of progressive experience in hands-on software engineering and/or platform engineering, with a significant focus on building and scaling complex, high-volume distributed systems.
• Deep Kubernetes Expertise:
• Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes internals, architecture, networking, security, and operation at extreme scale.
• Proven experience in designing and scaling Kubernetes deployments supporting thousands of services
• Programming Skills: Deep proficiency in Golang (Go) for developing and extending infrastructure systems, APIs, and platform tooling (required for infrastructure development).
• Infrastructure Systems: Extensive background in infrastructure development, including cloud environments, networking, storage, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Microservices: Expert knowledge of microservices architecture, service mesh technologies, API design principles, and inter-service communication patterns.
• Security & Reliability: A strong track record of designing platforms that prioritize security, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), and operational reliability for both the platform and the applications it hosts.
  

Why Join Us?

• Real Scale: Work on platform challenges that few organizations ever encounter, powering mission-critical software and services globally.
• Influence: Directly shape the future and direction of our core container platform strategy.
• Talent: Collaborate daily with some of the industry's most talented and passionate software and platform engineers.
  
  

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