Principal Analytics Platform & Cloud Architect

Avaya Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 179,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaya is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Analytics Platform) to build the software and cloud foundations for Avaya Infinity analytics. You will lead system design across services, data, and infrastructure, and personally drive critical work from concept to production.

You will collaborate with product, data, and platform teams, using agents to accelerate engineering while maintaining control over quality and security.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on software engineering with ownership of architecture and implementation across a production platform.
• Deep backend development in Go, Rust, Java or similar with practical Python and SQL skills.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, API contracts, and failure recovery.
• Hands-on Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience with module design and remote state.
• Hands-on GitHub Actions workflow engineering with secure credentials and deployment controls.
• Production cloud experience on Azure or GCP, including containers and Kubernetes.
• Experience with automated integration testing, observability, incident diagnosis, and controlled rollout.

Responsibilities

• Translate product goals into practical architecture and interfaces; implement critical services and integrations.
• Build reliable APIs and event-driven services with data correctness and tenant isolation.
• Design and maintain production infrastructure as code with Terraform and environment configuration.
• Develop and improve GitHub Actions workflows for infrastructure and delivery pipelines.
• Lead changes spanning services and infrastructure; define integration contracts and validation outcomes.
• Improve performance, resilience, observability, and cloud cost through measurements and investigations.

Skills

Go

Rust

Java

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Azure

GCP

Job description

Avaya is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (Analytics Platform) to build the software and cloud foundations for Avaya Infinity analytics. You will lead system design across services, data, and infrastructure, and personally drive critical work from concept to production.

You will collaborate with product, data, and platform teams, using agents to accelerate engineering while maintaining control over quality and security.