Principal Cloud Network & Reliability Architect

Singlestore; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SingleStore is seeking a Principal Cloud Network & Reliability Engineer to lead the architecture, reliability, and automation of our network foundations supporting our engineering organization. This senior role operates across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions across multiple teams, and establish SLOs, monitoring, and runbooks to improve uptime. The role requires strong networking and software engineering skills.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and operating complex production cloud networks in at least one major cloud provider, with meaningful experience in a second.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, or comparable IaC technologies.
• Experience building infrastructure automation using Python or Go.
• Strong SRE experience including observability, incident response, root-cause analysis, recovery engineering, and reliability improvement.

Responsibilities

• Define cloud networking architecture and standards across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.
• Design and evolve routing, segmentation, firewalls, NAT, ingress/egress, DNS, VPN, private connectivity, and cloud-to-data-center networking.
• Lead technical direction for private-access technologies such as Tailscale, Headscale, WireGuard, bastions, and related access patterns.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring, alerting, recovery procedures, and operational standards for critical network services.
• Lead diagnosis and mitigation of significant networking, connectivity, and infrastructure incidents, and drive permanent remediation.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, Python, Go, or comparable technologies.
• Build reusable infrastructure patterns and automation that enable safe self-service for platform and engineering teams.
• Improve infrastructure change safety through automated validation, required review, observability, change logging, and rollback practices.
• Partner with Cloud Platform, Developer Platform, Systems Engineering, IT, InfoSec, and SRE teams on architecture that crosses networking, infrastructure, identity, security, and reliability domains.
• Serve as a senior technical escalation point during U.S. business hours.
• Create architecture standards, decision records, runbooks, and operational practices that reduce dependency on individual subject-matter experts.
• Mentor engineers and raise networking, infrastructure, and reliability expertise across the organization.
• Identify architectural and operational gaps beyond the immediate networking domain and help drive them to resolution.

Skills

Cloud networking

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Networking architecture

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

CloudWatch

Job description

SingleStore is seeking a Principal Cloud Network & Reliability Engineer to lead the architecture, reliability, and automation of our network foundations supporting our engineering organization. This senior role operates across AWS, GCP, Azure, and internal infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions across multiple teams, and establish SLOs, monitoring, and runbooks to improve uptime. The role requires strong networking and software engineering skills.