Senior Cloud Platform Architect (Principal) - Remote

LI-COR; United States; Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

LI-COR is seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Software to provide technical direction and hands-on engineering across connected devices and cloud platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, science, quality, IT, and DevOps to deliver scalable, secure, and economical solutions for high-volume telemetry and analytics.

The role requires deep AWS/cloud experience, strong backend/API skills, and demonstrated architectural leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• 10+ years of software and cloud engineering experience with architecture ownership for production systems.
• Deep experience with AWS or comparable cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, IAM, observability, security, and IaC.
• Strong backend engineering and API design skills with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
• Experience with event-driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, high-volume time-series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
• Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery, cost, product economics, and customer impact.
• Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and leadership across teams and partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms.
• Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, and deployment patterns.
• Simplify the platform by consolidating or redesigning duplicate or fragile services.
• Guide platform modernization and use of managed cloud services based on product needs and cost.
• Maintain architecture decisions and documentation for knowledge retention and portability.
• Direct device-to-cloud data workflows, including schemas, batching, retries, and retention.
• Collaborate with Firmware and Hardware teams to address connectivity, scalability, and cost implications.
• Ensure end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, security, and scalability.
• Provide technical leadership through incidents and durable improvements.

Skills

AWS Cloud

Backend engineering

API design

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Security

Observability

Architecture leadership

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

LI-COR is seeking a Principal Engineer, Cloud Software to provide technical direction and hands-on engineering across connected devices and cloud platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, science, quality, IT, and DevOps to deliver scalable, secure, and economical solutions for high-volume telemetry and analytics.

The role requires deep AWS/cloud experience, strong backend/API skills, and demonstrated architectural leadership.