Director, Core Infrastructure & Scalable Systems

Polluxa, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. seeks a senior systems architect to lead multiple teams in designing scalable distributed systems, ensuring alignment with organizational and customer demands, and optimizing for high throughput and elasticity.

The role focuses on fault-tolerant architectures, data plane platforms, SLO-aligned durability, proactive health dashboards, incident readiness, and secure, verifiable design choices.

Responsibilities

• Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
• Spearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.
• Facilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
• Oversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).
• Drives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. seeks a senior systems architect to lead multiple teams in designing scalable distributed systems, ensuring alignment with organizational and customer demands, and optimizing for high throughput and elasticity.

The role focuses on fault-tolerant architectures, data plane platforms, SLO-aligned durability, proactive health dashboards, incident readiness, and secure, verifiable design choices.