Principal Architect, Core Platform

TL;DR

Principal Architect, Core Platform: Lead the strategic technical vision and architecture for hirify.global's cloud platform elasticity, scalability, and resilience with an accent on distributed systems expertise, multi-cloud capabilities, and modern infrastructure architectures. Focus on defining and evolving the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, self-optimizing cloud platform, driving innovation, and influencing technology decisions across the organization.

Location: Remote (California, USA)

Salary: $217,300.00 - $271,600.00 - $325,900.00 Annually

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud analytics and data platform for AI, enabling customers to make better, more confident decisions.

What you will do

• Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for a highly elastic, self-optimizing cloud platform.
• Develop frameworks and systems that support real-time autoscaling, predictive scaling, capacity forecasting, and cost-aware elasticity.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, vendor solutions, and open-source projects, identifying opportunities and gaps relative to our needs.
• Influence long-term engineering strategy, collaborating with product, operations, and security teams to align architectural decisions with business goals.
• Mentor senior technical leaders and engineering teams; drive engineering excellence and establish best practices for scalable cloud architecture.
• Focus on cost efficiency by designing elasticity mechanisms that reduce waste without compromising performance or customer experience.

Requirements

• 10+ years in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Proven track record architecting high-scale, elastic, multi-region or multi-cloud systems.
• Deep understanding of cloud provider elasticity primitives, orchestration systems (Kubernetes, serverless, autoscalers), and modern infrastructure technologies.

Nice to have

• Experience with hybrid or edge-cloud architectures.
• Contributions to open-source cloud infrastructure projects.
• Prior Distinguished Engineer or Principal Engineer experience in a large-scale cloud-native organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Prioritize a people-first culture.
• Embrace a flexible work model.
• Focus on well-being.
• Committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment.