Software Architect – Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering

Do you thrive at the intersection of big-picture thinking and hands-on technical execution Are you energized by designing systems that are resilient scalable and elegant As part of our CAD Infrastructure Development group youll help architect and build the distributed systems that power our products at scale. Youll ensure our services can seamlessly and efficiently handle large-scale demands. Joining this group means youll be responsible for shaping the technical direction of our platform infrastructure. Together you and your team will build the foundation that enables our engineering organization to deliver reliable performant experiences to our this role you will get to design new architectures and define patterns that enable other engineers to build better products faster.

In this highly visible and cross-functional role as a member of our CAD Infrstructure Development team you will be responsible for driving architectural decisions and best practices for distributed systems development. You will collaborate with multiple product and engineering teams to design evaluate and implement scalable microservices architectures event-driven systems and cloud-native platforms. Your work will enable us to increase system reliability improve development velocity and deliver high-quality services at scale.

Experience architecting and driving development of complex distributed systems and platform softwarenExperience in software architecture and systems design including microservices decomposition and service contractsnExperience in backend or systems-level languages such as Go Java or PythonnExperience in using container orchestration platforms such as KubernetesnExperience designing event-driven architectures and asynchronous communication patternsnExperience of software quality methodologies including design review code review and testing strategiesnMinimum requirement of BS 10 years of relevant industry experience with demonstrated ownership of architecture or systems design

Experience architecting large-scale systems with Kubernetes-native patterns including operators CRDs and service meshnExperience with message queues and streaming platforms such as Kafka RabbitMQ NATS or PulsarnExperience in DevOps and CI/CD methodologies platforms and tools such as ArgoCD Flux or JenkinsnStrong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency models fault tolerance and partitioning strategiesnStrong API design abilities across REST gRPC and event-driven interfacesnFamiliar with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or PuluminFamiliar with GitOps workflows and progressive delivery practicesnKnowledgeable in observability and reliability engineering including SLOs distributed tracing and circuit breakersnDemonstrated ability to mentor engineers and build consensus across teams on cross-cutting technical decisions