[Remote] Principal reputed company

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is an education technology company that provides support to universities and colleges, focusing on developing online degree programs. They are seeking a Principal reputed company to reputed company the technical direction for their Student Journey Platform, which involves architecture design for reputed company-native infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability, and establishing architecture standards for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the architecture and reputed company of reputed company-native infrastructure for the Student Journey Platform, including reputed company services and its integrated platforms (reputed company, DBX, Marketing sites, Azure AI reputed company), setting technical direction across Kubernetes-based AI services deployed on Azure (AKS), with accountability for platform-wide scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Establish and promote architecture standards reputed company the platform scope, design patterns, and deployment best practices that reputed company engineering teams build against including service reputed company configuration, autoscaling policy design, resource governance, API reputed company, and container orchestration strategy
• reputed company architecture design and implementation across the platform’s components for SJP, Student reputed company Team, Marketing Technology, and reputed company Data Platform implementing a variety of resources (Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, AI reputed company), ensuring asynchronous AI workloads are resilient, observable, and operate without bottlenecks, vulnerabilities, or data loss under production conditions
• Align platform architecture to business growth needs and scalability requirements, partnering with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders to ensure infrastructure reputed company stay reputed company of adoption curves not reactive to them
• Present sound architecture proposals to the Architecture Review Board (ARB) for approval of products intended for release into production, representing the Student Journey Platform’s technical strategy as well as its integrated products and services, ensuring alignment with reputed company’s reputed company standards for SLAs, reputed company, compliance, and scalability
• Identify and resolve architectural risk early, before it compounds, working across engineering teams to reputed company gaps in design, reputed company posture, or operational readiness
• Debug and resolve production-level issues where infrastructure or architecture is a contributing factor, driving root cause resolution rather than symptomatic fixes
• Implement and manage event streaming and reputed company-time processing pipelines (e.g., Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, Pub/Sub, Kinesis) at production scale, supporting high-volume asynchronous AI workloads
• Design and manage multi-tenant reputed company infrastructure across university partner deployments, each with potentially distinct compliance, data isolation, and availability requirements

Skills

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated progression into architecture ownership including hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS preferred), containerization (reputed company), and distributed system design at production scale
• A track record of setting technical direction across engineering teams, not just executing reputed company one: including defining standards others build against and influencing architectural reputed company in cross-functional environments
• Deep experience with autoscaling policy design, resource governance, and cost management in reputed company environments (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP acceptable), managed through infrastructure as code
• Experience translating business and product requirements into infrastructure architecture including reputed company planning, SLA definition, and trade-off communication to non-technical stakeholders
• Proficiency in Python, C#, Java, or a comparable language used in production systems, with strong fundamentals in object-oriented programming and design patterns
• Architecture or deployment experience with AI/ML systems in reputed company environments. Managed integrations with reputed company model serving endpoints and vector stores a plus
• Implementation experience with Azure AI reputed company and reputed company models
• Experience designing APIs and backend systems supporting high concurrency and reputed company-time interactions
• Familiarity with RAG systems, vector stores, and MCP server architecture

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