Remote Principal Architect

Summary

Join VGS, the world's leader in payment tokenization, as a Principal Architect and play a key role in architecting and building a highly available, reliable, and scalable platform. Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams to design, develop, and champion best-practices, patterns, and standards for all cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in software architecture, design and development in a Cloud SaaS environment
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architecture, microservices, Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Argo), GitOps, Authentication and Authorization, APIs and API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka (MSK), Java, Spring Framework, Python, and AWS services
• Strong experience in Observability solutions using Grafana, Honeycomb, Prometheus, DataDog and Open Telemetry
• Hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, Configuration Management, and Release Management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and communicate with Platform Engineering teams to design, develop, and champion best-practices, patterns and standards for all cloud infrastructure
• Work closely with our CTO and other architects to create holistic technology solutions for our customers
• Produce clear, detailed and actionable design documents, architecture blueprints, architectural decisions with context, decision and tradeoffs
• Be involved in hands-on development of proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and real production-ready code
• Mentor engineers on architecture best practices and standards
• Engage in all phases of the software lifecycle- design, implement, test, deploy, and support services in production
• Maintain a culture of code quality through rigorous testing, automation, and code reviews
• Be proactive and innovative- we rely on your feedback to build a world-class product

Benefits

• Flexible work hours
• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set up allowance