Software Architect (Java or C#)

3 months ago

Remote, PortugalSenior

Responsibilities

Partner with engineering teams to design resilient services, architectures, and deployment patterns.
Define and promote SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response, and post-incident learning.
Identify systemic reliability risks and help teams address root causes and reduce operational toil.
Advise teams on fault tolerance, scalability, observability, deployment safety, and operational readiness.
Lead investigations into performance bottlenecks across applications, infrastructure, databases, queues, networks, and third-party dependencies.
Improve metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, capacity planning, and load-testing practices.
Build automation, deployment tooling, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and reliability platforms.
Improve CI/CD, release safety, rollback strategies, cloud environments, containers, and orchestration.
Participate in and lead high-priority incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.
Mentor engineers on production ownership and operational best practices.

Experience in Site Reliability Engineering or senior backend/software engineering roles.
A software engineering background with the ability to write clean, maintainable production code.
Experience influencing architecture and improving production readiness with engineering teams.
Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resiliency patterns, failure modes, and performance engineering.
Experience diagnosing complex production issues across application and infrastructure layers.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, as well as on-premise environments and virtualization.
Experience with containers and orchestration technologies; Kubernetes is required.
Knowledge of observability tooling, including metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and with CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices.
Strong scripting or programming skills in Java or C#.
Clear, structured communication skills for explaining complex technical issues to engineering and leadership audiences.

Primarily remote work with occasional visits to the Coimbra office.
Future offices are planned in Aveiro and Porto.
The company emphasizes teamwork, transparency, career growth, and promotion from within.

1,001-5,000 employees