Senior Cloud Architect - Lead Platform Reliability & Strategy

Initio Capital LLC; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Initio Capital, in partnership with Career Launch, is seeking senior Principal Cloud Architects for opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role leads design and delivery of reliable software systems for growing technology companies, with ownership of critical decisions and collaboration across teams.

Ideal candidates ship and operate complex software, demonstrate strong system design and communication, and can translate product goals into pragmatic engineering plans.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping and operating complex software in a senior engineering role.
• Strong system design, technical judgment, and written communication.
• Experience working across product and business functions in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to lead ambiguous work from problem definition to production results.
• Experience coaching peers or leading technical programs without formal authority.
• Authorization to work in the United States for the employer.

Responsibilities

• Guide cloud architecture, modernization, reliability, cost, and security decisions.
• Own architecture and technical decisions for high-impact products and platform capabilities.
• Translate business goals into engineering plans and milestones.
• Build and improve production systems with reliability, security, and performance focus.
• Raise engineering standards through design reviews, documentation, testing, and operational discipline.
• Mentor engineers and improve collaboration across product, data, design, and go-to-market teams.
• Use metrics and incident learning to prioritize technical investment and reduce recurring risk.

Skills

Cloud architecture

System design

Technical judgment

Written communication

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Incident learning

Job description

Initio Capital, in partnership with Career Launch, is seeking senior Principal Cloud Architects for opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The role leads design and delivery of reliable software systems for growing technology companies, with ownership of critical decisions and collaboration across teams.

Ideal candidates ship and operate complex software, demonstrate strong system design and communication, and can translate product goals into pragmatic engineering plans.