Remote Principal Architect: Cloud-Native Systems Leader

Relativity; United States; Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 314,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

DTO (Discretionary Time Off)

Equity program

Health and retirement programs

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a seasoned technical leader to design and scale cloud-native, distributed systems that process petabytes of data weekly. You will shape enterprise-wide standards, security, and reliability strategies, while mentoring teams and influencing senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes streaming-first workflows, AI-assisted development, and hands-on ownership of production systems across a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience designing, building and operating complex cloud-native distributed systems.
• Recognized authority in architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience defining organization-wide technical standards.
• Deep involvement in security, compliance, and reliability strategy.
• Ability to align technical vision with company-level strategy.
• Proven influence at senior and executive levels.
• Exceptional mentorship, communication, and strategic thinking skills.
• Deep expertise in high-throughput data processing and transformation at scale.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and architecture of distributed, scalable, secure full-stack cloud services that process petabytes of data weekly. Influence execution across engineering.
• Resolve the most complex, cross-organizational technical problems through deep technical expertise, collaboration, and hands-on implementation.
• Define and lead the organization-wide technical vision and architecture and shape long-term platform and data strategy.
• Establish enterprise standards for system scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, testability, and flexibility, partnering with teams to drive adoption.
• Influence and align engineering execution with company-level strategy and shape engineering culture across the organization.
• Influence executive-level product and platform decisions.
• Lead the evolution of Enrichment from batch-oriented pipelines toward streaming-first, continually processing workflows delivering real-time, large-scale results.
• Stay deeply hands-on; own production software end-to-end.

Skills

Cloud-native distributed systems

Architectural leadership

Security and reliability strategy

High-throughput data processing

Event-driven architectures

Kubernetes

Temporal or durable workflows

AI-assisted engineering mindset

Executive stakeholder influence

Mentorship and communication

Tools

Temporal

Kubernetes

Event Hub / Kafka

Apache Spark

Job description

Relativity is seeking a seasoned technical leader to design and scale cloud-native, distributed systems that process petabytes of data weekly. You will shape enterprise-wide standards, security, and reliability strategies, while mentoring teams and influencing senior stakeholders.

The role emphasizes streaming-first workflows, AI-assisted development, and hands-on ownership of production systems across a highly collaborative environment.