Software Architect
Blackpoint Cyber3 months ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive and execute technology strategy and critical architectural initiatives across the product portfolio.
- Champion AI-driven approaches to architecture, solution design, development workflows, and product delivery.
- Define architectural principles, frameworks, and standards in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Lead and participate in Product design reviews and ensure architectural alignment across teams.
- Provide technical leadership for software design and implementation across the Product organization.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders and build cross-functional partnerships.
- Provide technical leadership to development and test engineering teams.
- Research and execute proofs of concept for AI technologies, intelligent automation, and AI-powered solutions.
- Participate in on-call rotation, troubleshoot critical production issues, drive root cause analysis, and support platform reliability and availability.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience in software architecture and engineering.
- Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures, and data sets.
- Expertise with big data and streaming technologies such as Elastic, Kafka, and Spark.
- Deep knowledge of AWS cloud infrastructure and technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Mastery of microservices and enterprise-scale SaaS architectures.
- Experience with varied data-storage methods and building data platforms.
- Experience designing and delivering high-volume SaaS applications and enterprise-scale endpoint agents.
- Strategic problem-solving ability, strong organizational awareness, and proactive planning skills.
- Exceptional verbal, presentation, listening, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated commitment to hands-on technical execution and delivery.
- Ability to work in a rapid production-support environment, including on-call responsibilities.
Benefits
- Health, vision, dental, and life insurance for eligible US employees.
- 401(k) plan for eligible US employees.
- Discretionary time off and other minor perks.
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About Blackpoint Cyber
Blackpoint Cyber provides managed detection, response, and remediation services and a security platform used by managed service providers and mid-market organizations. Founded in 2014 by former U.S. defense and intelligence operators, it offers 24/7 SOC-backed threat hunting and incident response delivered via the Blackpoint Suite. The privately held, remote-first company sells primarily through MSP partners and raised a Series C in 2023.