Senior Principal Cloud Architect, AWS & SaaS

CarGurus LLC; Boston (MA); Hybride; USD 191 000 - 239 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity for all employees

Daily free lunch

Commuting cost coverage

Flexible hybrid model

Generous time-off policies

Résumé du poste

CarGurus is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to be the hands-on cloud architect in the Engineering Platform. You will shape how services map to AWS, prototype with teams, and drive cloud-native, secure, scalable software across 300+ engineers.

You will lead AWS strategy, design cost-aware architectures, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with product teams. This role offers a hybrid work model and impactful ownership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering, including 5+ years on production systems on AWS.
• Proficient in production-quality code in Java, Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Fluent in infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Deep AWS expertise across networking, IAM, serverless, containers, and data stores.
• Security-focused with least-privilege IAM and OAuth2/OIDC considerations.
• Willingness to prototype and document architectural decisions, then scale them.
• Able to mentor senior engineers and lead workshops on cloud-native best practices.
• Cost-conscious design mindset across cloud and AI spend.

Responsabilités

• Own system architecture and map services/data/jobs to AWS for scalable cloud-native apps.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering to prototype and unblock teams with architecture solutions.
• Lead AWS relationship and guide service roadmaps with AWS architects.
• Build PoCs and reference implementations in Terraform, Python, Java, etc., evolving into standard patterns.
• Advance AWS self-service and guardrails with Terraform workflows and policies.
• Design cloud architecture with cost attribution and tagging for governance.
• Lead SaaS maturity and compliance readiness including disaster recovery, security, and performance.
• Mentor engineers and share cloud-native best practices across teams.

Connaissances

AWS cloud architecture

Production-grade coding

Mentoring engineers

Cross-team collaboration

Security/compliance mindset

Cost optimization mindset

Communication of trade-offs

Outils

Terraform

Java

Python

TypeScript

Go

AWS services (IAM, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, EKS)

Description du poste

CarGurus is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to be the hands-on cloud architect in the Engineering Platform. You will shape how services map to AWS, prototype with teams, and drive cloud-native, secure, scalable software across 300+ engineers.

You will lead AWS strategy, design cost-aware architectures, and mentor senior engineers while collaborating with product teams. This role offers a hybrid work model and impactful ownership.