Principal Architect – Virtualization and Cloud-Native Technologies

Job Description:

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.
• Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.
• Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.
• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.
• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

Requirements:

• 15 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent
• Extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.
• Experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)
• Significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash
• Good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or more public cloud offerings.

Benefits:

• healthcare
• 401K savings plan
• company holidays
• vacation (in the form of PTO)
• sick time
• family-friendly benefits including parental leave
• employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness