Principal Software Engineer, Architecture

Summary

Join us as a Principal Engineer, Architecture at Brightcove to help grow our video streaming capabilities by an order of magnitude. As a seasoned engineering leader, you will work with engineering teams and product management to execute on our vision for a unified solution for video streaming.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience required
• 10+ years of experience as an architect and engineering leader in a B2B, SaaS environment
• 5+ years of experience as an architect and technical leader in a B2B, SaaS environment
• Extensive knowledge of agile and evolutionary architecture methodologies, continuous integration/delivery, automated end-to-end testing, SRE and DevOps practices and well versed in modern architecture
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS solutions, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration deployments
• Results driven with an unwavering commitment to reliability and quality
• Passion for wowing and delighting customers and stakeholders
• Expertise in cloud based systems and products (e.g., applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data and security), and deep understanding of market trends and emerging technologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence, educate and inspire others

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead on demanding, cross-functional projects
• Ensure quality and reliability of system architectures and design
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Fully and completely understand system inter dependencies, non-functional requirements, and limitations
• Effectively deploy expert knowledge to improve system performance, scalability, security, and reliability
• Actively mentor individuals and the community on advanced technical issues as well as reliability and architecture best practices
• Drive modern system design principles
• Apply cloud-native architecture, application and service scaling, SRE, and DevOps principles and practices to existing and new service designs
• Build prototypes and POCs to validate architecture

Benefits

Competitive benefits and compensation packages