Senior Product Architect

Storyblok; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote stipend

Home office equipment

Sick leave

Parental leave

25 days annual leave

Development fund

Team trips

Flexible schedule

Fully remote

Job summary

Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. You will own the overall technical architecture, platform vision, and system scalability behind Storyblok's product offerings, ensuring high performance, security, and developer joy across all systems.

You will partner closely with product managers, engineering leads, and platform teams to design scalable cloud-native architectures, establish guardrails, and guide technical direction

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years in software architecture or senior engineering for large-scale cloud apps.
• AI literacy and ability to leverage AI tools responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Define long-term technical product architecture and platform scalability strategies across cloud infrastructure and microservices.
• Lead architectural reviews for major product features, ensuring security, reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, DevOps, and Data teams to align product capabilities with platform performance and business goals.

Skills

Cloud-native architectures

AI literacy

API design

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant SaaS

Technical leadership

Microservice patterns

AWS experience

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Job description

Storyblok is a headless CMS that enables marketers and developers to create with joy and publish with confidence. It empowers you to deliver structured and consistent content everywhere: websites, apps, AI search, and beyond.

Legendary brands like Virgin Media O2, Oatly, and TomTom use Storyblok to make a bigger, faster market impact.

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU

You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many “firsts”. Plus these benefits:

• Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity). Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…)
• Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding
• Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays
• Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material
• The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers
• As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you’ll enjoy flexible schedules
• An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals

JOB SUMMARY

You will own the overall technical architecture, platform vision, and system scalability behind Storyblok's product offerings, ensuring high performance, security, and developer joy across all systems.

You will partner closely with product managers, engineering leads, and platform teams to design scalable cloud-native architectures, establish guardrails, and guide technical direction for enterprise-grade features.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Define and drive the long-term technical product architecture, system design, and platform scalability strategies across cloud infrastructure and microservices.
• Establish architectural guardrails, design patterns, and standards to empower engineering teams to build safe, high-performing, and resilient features.
• Lead architectural reviews for major product features, ensuring compliance with security, reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency requirements.
• Collaborate with Product, Security, DevOps, and Data teams to align product capabilities with platform performance and business goals.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in software architecture, principal engineering, or system design roles for large-scale distributed cloud applications.
• Demonstrates AI literacy, with the ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, decision-making, and quality of work while applying sound judgment and critical thinking

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures (AWS preferred), API design, distributed systems, and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Strong fluency in modern programming backend/frontend ecosystems and microservice communication patterns.
• Proven ability to lead technical strategy a