Vice President, Chief Architect

PagerDuty; Bismarck (ND); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital operations management firm seeks a technologist and proven leader to drive technology strategy and foster an innovative culture. This role requires expertise in distributed systems and cloud architectures, alongside strong leadership skills that influence multiple teams. The position offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and comprehensive benefits including generous paid leave and wellness programs.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits package

Flexible work arrangements

Company equity

Generous paid vacation time

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in distributed systems operating in cloud environments.
• Proven track record of leading through influence across organization boundaries.
• Extensive experience with architecting large scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology strategy influencing multiple products and teams.
• Drive and promote reliability engineering strategies and best practices.
• Participate closely in architecture design and implementation.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership skills

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Excellent communication

Innovation and results-driven

Education

Experience in a similar role

Job description

Overview

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you\'ll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

We are looking for a technologist and proven leader that is equally passionate about large scale distributed systems and leveraging architecture as a discipline that can accelerate business scale for a large and growing customer base. We believe cultivating a culture that embraces collaboration, creativity, and learning sets us up for success. You will be expected to participate in customer facing and industry engagements that yield input into our technology vision and strategy. You will report to the CTO and play a key role in working across the Engineering and Product organizations to drive alignment on design patterns, standardization and best practices to support the business. If you are technical, creative, future focused, and excited about fostering an environment amongst our teams that helps create avenues for success and learning, then this is a great opportunity for you.

PagerDuty’s Vision for Architecture

We believe sound architecture oriented thinking can help teams produce great products that deliver value and delight our customers. Striving for creative, pragmatic, and high quality enables us to deliver faster to market and maintain our brand promise of reliability.

How You Impact Our Vision:

• Lead technology strategy that influences across multiple products, teams, and geographies
• Driving and promoting reliability engineering strategy and best practices
• Lead design reviews to ensure scalable and reliable systems
• Stay close to technology with a hands on approach
• Be future focused by incorporating corporate strategy, customer needs, industry trends, and technology together
• Actively participate across engineering, product and corporate strategy teams that not only result in successful outcomes for our customers but also in operational excellence
• Act as coach and mentor to our Staff+ engineers
• Promote a culture of creativity, learning, and collective success resulting in a technology and architecture roadmap that delivers on business outcomes
• Bring a pragmatic approach to technology driven decisions and investments
• Ability to participate quickly in teams at both architecture design and implementation

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role and capacity with distributed systems operating in cloud environments
• Strong leadership skills that showcases by leading through influence across functional and organization boundaries
• Experience in driving architecture throughout a product portfolio across a diverse technology organization
• Experience in establishing, driving, standardizing reliability engineering practices
• Excellent communications skills to engage with both business and technical audiences
• Proven track record of innovative, creative, and results driven outcomes
• Extensive experience with architecting and developing large scale distributed systems and developing enterprise level technology roadmaps
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience working with team members across various geographies
• Experience in evaluating talent and products in mergers and acquisitions

Hesitant to apply?

We encourage you to submit your resume even if you don\'t meet every requirement. We value potential and consider each candidate\'s full professional story. Whether you\'re exploring a career change or taking your next step, we look forward to reviewing your application. If this just isn\'t the right role or time - sign up for job alerts (https://careers.pagerduty.com/jobalerts) !

Where we work

PagerDuty operates a hybrid work model with offices (https://careers.pagerduty.com/locations) in 8 major cities: Atlanta, Lisbon, London, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto. While we offer flexibility within our established locations, we cannot employ candidates residing in:

Location restrictions:

Australia: Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Canada: Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

United States: Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming

Candidates must reside in an eligible location, which vary by role.

What we offer

As a global organization, our total rewards approach is competitive with industry standards and aligned with local laws and regulations. Learn more, including country-specific offerings, on our benefits site.

Your package may include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements
• Company equity*
• ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)*
• Retirement or pension plan*
• Generous paid vacation time
• Paid holidays and sick leave
• Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
• Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)*
• Paid volunteer time off: 20 hours per year
• Company-wide hack weeks
• Mental wellness programs

*Eligibility may vary by role, region, and tenure

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is an AI-powered platform that empowers business resilience and drives operational efficiency for enterprises. With a generative AI assistant at its core, PagerDuty empowers teams to detect and resolve issues in real time, orchestrate complex workflows, and drive continuous improvement across their digital operations. Trusted by nearly half of both the Fortune 500 and the Forbes AI 50, as well as approximately two-thirds of the Fortune 100, PagerDuty is essential for delivering always-on digital experiences to modern businesses

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2.

Go behind-the-scenes on our careers site and @pagerduty on Instagram.

Additional Information

PagerDuty is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status. Your privacy is important to us. By submitting an application, you confirm that you have read and understand PagerDuty\'s Privacy Policy.

PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

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