Principal Cloud-Native Platform Architect

Cohesity, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 340,000 - 378,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage for you and your家

Paid parental leave

Flexible paid time off

Company-wide days off

Wellness program

Continuous learning

Competitive salary

Job summary

Cohesity, Inc. is seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer (L8) to lead architecture and development of cloud-native services and platform infrastructure powering large-scale SaaS and multi-cloud environments.

You will define the technical vision for multi-tenant services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, partnering with senior leaders to build scalable, secure cloud services and enable product teams to operate at scale.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, including 5+ years on public cloud.
• Deep expertise in containers and orchestration like Kubernetes.
• Strong experience designing cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS architectures on public cloud.
• Hands-on experience designing highly scalable microservices architectures.
• Expertise in cloud storage, networking, and compute services, and distributed data platforms.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and CI/CD (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD) and automation at scale.
• Deep knowledge of observability, monitoring, and site reliability engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture and technical roadmap for cloud-native platform services.
• Lead the design of large-scale, multi-tenant distributed systems running as managed cloud services.
• Provide deep technical leadership across engineering teams and influence architecture decisions.
• Mentor senior and staff engineers and raise the technical bar across the engineering organization.
• Architect and build cloud-native platforms across compute, storage, networking, and data for high availability and resilience.
• Design microservices and event-driven architectures using service mesh, API gateways, and managed cloud services.
• Develop platforms enabling self-service deployment, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.
• Drive end-to-end production ownership, disaster recovery, safe fleet-wide upgrades, and reducing operational toil.
• Lead adoption of serverless, managed data services, and cloud-native storage and networking.
• Drive cloud cost efficiency (FinOps), performance, and scalability across the platform.

Skills

Large-scale distributed

Kubernetes

Multi-tenant SaaS

Microservices

Cloud storage

Golang/Java/Python

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Observability

CI/CD

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Cohesity, Inc. is seeking an exceptional Principal Engineer (L8) to lead architecture and development of cloud-native services and platform infrastructure powering large-scale SaaS and multi-cloud environments.

You will define the technical vision for multi-tenant services across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, partnering with senior leaders to build scalable, secure cloud services and enable product teams to operate at scale.