Senior Staff Cloud Platform Architect – Scale & Lead Remote

Cloudera; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Unplugged Days

Flexible WFH

Wellness programs

Phone and Internet Reimbursement

Continued Career Development

Comprehensive Benefits

Paid Volunteer Time

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Cloudera is exploring senior technical leadership for its Cloud Factory, focusing on architecture, platform capabilities, and scalable cloud-native solutions. You will shape direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, architecture, and R&D teams.

You will drive strategic initiatives across multiple teams, balancing delivery with long-term platform integrity while translating customer needs into robust technical plans that deliver real business value.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in software engineering, system architecture and cloud-native tech.
• Proven track record as a technical leader across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the technical direction for major areas of the Cloudera Cloud Factory platform.
• Design scalable, resilient distributed systems across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead architecture and design for cross-cutting initiatives with customer impact.
• Act as a technical authority and advisor to engineers and architects.
• Identify gaps, debt, and opportunities to modernize the platform.
• Establish patterns and best practices to improve reliability and maintainability.
• Partner with Product Management to translate requirements into practical tech strategies.
• Drive alignment across teams and influence decisions beyond your own org.
• Lead initiatives from exploration through production adoption and improvement.
• Mentor senior staff engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Large-scale dist sys

Cloud platforms

Technical leadership

Systems thinking

Architectural judgment

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Open-source

Job description

Cloudera is exploring senior technical leadership for its Cloud Factory, focusing on architecture, platform capabilities, and scalable cloud-native solutions. You will shape direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, architecture, and R&D teams.

You will drive strategic initiatives across multiple teams, balancing delivery with long-term platform integrity while translating customer needs into robust technical plans that deliver real business value.