Senior Platform Architect

Role Overview

• Own the availability architecture across compute, network, storage, data, and app tiers to exceed 99.9% service availability
• Design fault domains (host, rack, cluster, site) and enforce placement strategies to ensure resilience and predictable failure behavior and blast radius limits
• Eliminate single points of failure across compute, storage, networking, ingress, identity, secrets, and CI/CD pipelines
• Design graceful degradation strategies at the infrastructure level to maintain core functionality during overload or partial failure
• Define performance budgets, SLOs, and capacity headroom for peak traffic and failure scenarios
• Define SLOs, SLIs and error budgets and ensure they inform deployment, scaling, and incident response
• Drive infrastructure as code and GitOps practices to ensure consistent, repeatable environments
• Define and enable progressive deployment models (canary, blue/green, rolling) with automated rollback
• Build platform and CI/CD capabilities that directly improve deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to recover (MTTR)
• Embed security by design, including zero trust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and least privilege access
• Establish standard observability for metrics, logs, traces, and health signals across the platform
• Enable operational and incident response readiness, including runbooks, failure testing, and automated remediation
• Act as the technical authority for platform architecture decisions and trade offs
• Partner with engineering teams to onboard services and ensure alignment with platform standards
• Provide reference architectures, patterns, and guidance that improve developer experience and delivery speed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of related experience as a Platform/Solutions/System Design Architect, Software Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer or a role in similar capacity
• Proven experience designing distributed systems with an emphasis on availability, scalability, resilience, and performance
• Demonstrated expertise in microservices architecture, API design, and service to service communication patterns
• Strong knowledge of system design principles including fault tolerance, capacity planning, dependency isolation, and failure handling
• Experience leading or contributing to architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and cross team initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and explain complex system designs

Tech Stack

• Distributed Systems
• Microservices

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and well-being programs
• Medical, vision, dental insurance
• 401(k) matching contribution
• Life and disability insurance
• Mental health coaching
• Virtual fitness programs
• Paid personal time off plus 12 paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Education reimbursement