Senior SaaS Cloud Architect - AWS & Multi-Tenant Platform

NetBrain; New Jersey; On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Medical/dental coverage

Job summary

NetBrain seeks a Software Architect to own the end-to-end technical architecture for its next-generation SaaS platform on AWS. This senior, hands-on leadership role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, platform engineering, and product strategy, ideal for scaling a product from private cloud to public SaaS.

You will define foundational direction, influence product strategy, mentor senior engineers, and deliver ADRs and documentation to guide teams and executives.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years in software or infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years in an architecture role for a SaaS product.
• Deep AWS experience across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Proven multi-tenant SaaS architecture experience, moving on-prem/private to public SaaS.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native patterns: event-driven, microservices, 12-factor, API-first.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to produce executable docs for engineers and executives.
• Security-focused with encryption, IAM, secrets management, and SOC 2 readiness.

Responsibilities

• Define the reference architecture for NetBrain’s SaaS platform on AWS.
• Lead multi-tenancy design including data isolation and tenant routing.
• Own the IaC strategy using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation with reusable modules.
• Design container orchestration with Kubernetes including topology and autoscaling.
• Architect event-driven messaging with RabbitMQ or Kafka and governance.
• Define polyglot persistence across relational DBs and MongoDB with data modeling standards.
• Establish the observability stack and SLI/SLO frameworks.
• Embed security in platform architecture including encryption and IAM.
• Produce ADRs and architecture documentation for teams and leadership.

Skills

AWS expertise

SaaS architecture

Multi-tenant design

Event-driven design

Leadership

Documentation

Security architecture

ADR/doc governance

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Kubernetes

MongoDB

Relational databases

Job description

NetBrain seeks a Software Architect to own the end-to-end technical architecture for its next-generation SaaS platform on AWS. This senior, hands-on leadership role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, platform engineering, and product strategy, ideal for scaling a product from private cloud to public SaaS.

You will define foundational direction, influence product strategy, mentor senior engineers, and deliver ADRs and documentation to guide teams and executives.