Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Software Engineer to provide deep technical leadership across system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platforms for our Private Cloud initiatives. In addition to implementation and delivery responsibilities, you will act as a trusted technical authority, consulting across teams, mentoring senior engineers and architects, and ensuring our designs meet the highest standards for scalability, reliability, and security.

You will be a recognized expert in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with a particular focus on security design reviews and architectural governance. This role works closely with senior technical leaders across engineering, platform, and security teams.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership

• Define and evolve system and platform architectures for large scale, distributed Private Cloud systems
• Provide architectural guidance on multiaccount, multitenant, and isolated cloud environments
• Review and influence designs across compute, networking, identity, data, and observability layers
• Ensure architectural decisions align with long term platform strategy and operational realities
  
  

Distributed Systems Expertise

• Advise teams on scalability, fault tolerance, availability, and resilience in complex distributed systems
• Identify systemic risks and architectural tradeoffs early, and guide teams toward sustainable solutions
• Act as a point of escalation for complex cross system design challenges
  
  

Security Architecture & Design Review

• Serve as a security design review authority, participating in and leading formal architecture and security reviews (e.g., SRTstyle reviews)
• Evaluate designs for compliance with security, privacy, and dataprotection principles
• Partner with security teams to ensure consistent application of threat modeling, identity architecture, and defenseindepth strategies
• Help raise the overall security architecture maturity across the organization
  
  

Consulting & Mentorship

• Act as a consulting architect to engineering and platform teams—providing guidance rather than owning delivery
• Mentor senior engineers and architects, raising the technical bar through design reviews, architectural critiques, and 1:many influence
• Help establish architectural best practices, reference architectures, and shared principles
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.
  
  

Additional Qualifications

Required Experience

• Deep experience designing and reviewing large scale distributed systems in production
• Expert level knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent), including account structures, networking, identity, and security
• Proven track record as a system or platform architect influencing designs across multiple teams
• Strong background in security architecture, including design reviews, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience with regulated or security sensitive environments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes based platforms, infrastructure as code, and observability systems
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical leader on a team