10+ years of progressive software engineering experience At least 3+ years in a senior or principal architecture role Proven expertise designing and evolving architectures in high-scale, multi-product environments Deep understanding of domain-driven design (DDD), service decomposition, and event-driven patterns Strong AWS architecture experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, EventBridge, SQS/SNS) Strong infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) experience Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy systems incrementally Solid understanding of data synchronization, API design, schema evolution, and distributed systems reliability Experience defining and implementing CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks, and deployment strategies Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills