Remote Principal Cloud Architect (AWS, Microservices)

Yourgi, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 248,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision and dental

Life insurance

401(k) match

Pet care discounts

Flexible time off

Startup mentality

Job summary

Yourgi, a remote-first company in the United States, seeks a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for cloud services, data, and API design across our platform. You will own architecture, mentor engineers, and drive performance, observability, and cost-efficiency while collaborating with product and design.

Expected is a strong track record with AWS, serverless patterns, relational databases, and scalable systems.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building production software with leadership experience.
• Proven API, services, and data model design that multiple teams depend on.

Responsibilities

• Own the target cloud services architecture on AWS and the roadmap, simplifying Lambda estate.
• Lead service design with API patterns and versioned contracts across apps.
• Own database design, performance tuning, and data governance from MySQL to modern models.
• Draft architecture docs and chair cross-team reviews for payments, bookings, or customer data.
• Raise engineering bar for reviews, testing, observability, and latency budgets.
• Shape AI-assisted delivery workflow with product and design from PRD to deploy.
• Mentor senior engineers, aid hiring, and guide build-vs-buy in cloud/AI costs.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural vision

Mentoring

Strong written communication

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Serverless

Microservices

CI/CD

Observability

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Job description

Yourgi, a remote-first company in the United States, seeks a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for cloud services, data, and API design across our platform. You will own architecture, mentor engineers, and drive performance, observability, and cost-efficiency while collaborating with product and design.

Expected is a strong track record with AWS, serverless patterns, relational databases, and scalable systems.