Principal Cloud Architect — IoT & Data Platform Leader

Aptiora; United States; Remote; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptiora is seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Software in the United States to provide technical direction and hands-on engineering for connected products and cloud platforms. You will own architecture for scalable, secure, production-grade systems across embedded devices, gateways, and cloud services.

The role requires extensive backend and API design skills, experience with event-driven architectures, and leading architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software and cloud engineering experience.
• Architecture ownership for IoT/connected devices or high-volume data platforms.
• Deep AWS or comparable cloud experience (compute, containers, networking, databases, IaC).
• Strong backend engineering and API design skills.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems, data ingestion, time-series data.
• CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, secure delivery at scale.
• Ability to tie architecture decisions to delivery, costs, and customer impact.
• Effective communication, systems thinking, and cross-team influence.
• Architecture spanning embedded devices to cloud apps and analytics.
• Experience with regulated or quality-controlled systems and data governance.
• Platform modernization and global delivery models.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

Security & compliance

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

Job description

Aptiora is seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Software in the United States to provide technical direction and hands-on engineering for connected products and cloud platforms. You will own architecture for scalable, secure, production-grade systems across embedded devices, gateways, and cloud services.

The role requires extensive backend and API design skills, experience with event-driven architectures, and leading architectural decisions that balance performance, cost, and customer impact.