Remote Senior Cloud Architect - AWS & Node.js

Bluelight; Buenos Aires; Remote; ARS 152,070,000 - 228,106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonuses

Generous paid-time-off policy

Flexible working hours

Work remotely

Continuing education & certifications

Job summary

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned software architect to join our rapidly expanding team. You will design low-latency, secure, multi-tenant architectures, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions across projects for clients in the US and the Americas.

You bring 8+ years in software development with 3+ years in architecture, deep AWS and PostgreSQL experience, and a track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years in architecture-focused roles.
• Design low-latency service architectures in AWS and decide when distributed components are appropriate.
• Design for explicit latency budgets (p95/p99) and durable commits in hot paths.
• Build audit/evidence systems: append-only logs, versioned models, replay capabilities.
• Define fail-open/fail-closed/degraded-state semantics and outage postures.
• Architect secure multi-tenant environments with trade-off analysis.
• Deep PostgreSQL/AuroraDB experience with Row-Level Security.
• Build scalable RESTful APIs and integrate SDKs with external services.
• Lead architecture reviews, document ADRs, and present decisions to clients.
• Overlap US business hours; hold ourselves to high standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of end-to-end architectures for client projects.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams through architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant solutions.

Skills

Architectural design

AWS low-latency systems

Audit/evidence systems

Secure multi-tenant architecture

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB with RLS

RESTful APIs

SDK integrations

Node.js/TypeScript/JavaScript

Cost/perf projections (AWS)

Architecture docs & ADRs

US-hours alignment

Bachelor's degree

Ownership & leadership

Quality-focused

Client-facing collaboration

Best practices

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL/AuroraDB

Node.js tooling

AWS Well-Architected tools

Job description

Bluelight is seeking a seasoned software architect to join our rapidly expanding team. You will design low-latency, secure, multi-tenant architectures, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions across projects for clients in the US and the Americas.

You bring 8+ years in software development with 3+ years in architecture, deep AWS and PostgreSQL experience, and a track record of delivering high-quality, scalable systems in fast-paced environments.