Senior Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Extreme Networks, Inc; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Extreme Networks, Inc in San Jose seeks a Senior Principal/Principal Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of a comprehensive cloud platform. You will guide a team across service domains, architect scalable microservices, and drive reliability and performance improvements.

The role requires 15+ years in software engineering, deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and modern programming languages. Collaboration with product, DevOps, and security is essential.

Qualifications

• Fifteen+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems and microservices.
• Strong background in cloud platforms and containerization.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and architecting scalable cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect a scalable, highly available cloud platform with 15+ microservices.
• Lead technical strategy for platform evolution and deployment architectures.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive architectural excellence across services.
• Define monitoring, observability, and security considerations for distributed systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes

Java

Go

Python

API design

Event-driven systems

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Security & compliance in cloud

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

Git

Job description

Extreme Networks, Inc in San Jose seeks a Senior Principal/Principal Engineer to lead the design, architecture, and development of a comprehensive cloud platform. You will guide a team across service domains, architect scalable microservices, and drive reliability and performance improvements.

The role requires 15+ years in software engineering, deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and modern programming languages. Collaboration with product, DevOps, and security is essential.