1 day ago
Base Salary
$202k - $318k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define organization-wide architectural direction, technical vision, and multi-year strategy for TDP and DXP.
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives involving distributed data infrastructure, streaming, cloud portability, platform intelligence, and developer-facing capabilities.
- Design reusable compute, runtime, streaming, data-movement, telemetry, and analytical-platform patterns across multiple clouds and regions.
- Establish standards for reliability, scalability, security, observability, disaster recovery, data residency, tenant isolation, and operational readiness.
- Lead architecture reviews, resolve cross-organizational technical ambiguity, and influence engineering leaders and stakeholders without direct authority.
- Guide incident response and drive durable architectural and operational improvements from lessons learned.
- Mentor principal and senior engineers, contribute to hiring and technical assessment, and raise engineering quality across the organization.
- Remain sufficiently hands-on to validate architectural assumptions, develop reference implementations, and unblock critical technical work.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a senior technical leader for large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, streaming infrastructure, cloud platforms, or comparable business-critical systems.
- Demonstrated success setting technical direction and delivering multi-team or multi-organization platform initiatives.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and production operations.
- Experience designing or operating large-scale streaming, messaging, data-processing, storage, or analytical systems.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes or comparable compute platforms, including workload isolation, autoscaling, deployment safety, observability, and resilience.
- Experience designing systems across multiple cloud providers, regions, failure domains, or specialized operating environments.
- Experience delivering enterprise capabilities such as data residency, encryption, compliance, disaster recovery, tenant isolation, or regulated-cloud support.
- Proven ability to convert ambiguous business and customer needs into architectural direction, roadmaps, and executable technical plans.
- Experience leading complex incident response and converting operational learning into lasting platform improvements.
- Proven ability to influence senior engineers, engineering managers, Directors, and cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
- Track record of creating reusable technical capabilities and driving adoption across multiple engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical, executive, product, and customer-facing audiences.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and increasing an engineering organization’s technical and architectural capabilities.
- Experience with Kafka or comparable event-streaming technologies, Kubernetes, stream-processing systems such as Flink, distributed databases such as TiDB, analytical data platforms, data lakehouse technologies, multi-cloud migrations, or internal developer platforms is beneficial but not required.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement allowing work from an office, home, or a combination of both.
- Role requires location in the United States and collaboration with teams in the United States, Australia, and India.
- Health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and additional benefits and perks.
- Role may be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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