Principal Cloud Software Engineer

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.

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

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