Principal Cloud Platform Architect

AlteryxCloud Infrastructure

United StatesFull-TimePrincipal

Salary$215,000 - $300,000

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10+ years in software/cloud infrastructure engineering, including time at Principal Engineer/Architect level.
Proven track record architecting large-scale, multi-region, multi-tenant cloud-native SaaS platforms.
Deep expertise in distributed systems, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
Strong experience with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure.
Solid grasp of cloud networking (load balancing, service discovery, ingress, DNS, service mesh) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog).
Strong coding skills in Java, Python, Go, or similar.
Excellent communication and consensus-building skills across engineering orgs.
Experience leading enterprise cloud migrations or IDP/platform engineering builds.
Knowledge of AI, analytics, or large-scale data platforms.
Experience with cloud security, governance, or compliance.

Define the long-term multi-cloud, multi-region architecture; lead migrations and drive cloud-native adoption.
Architect shared platform services including networking, compute, storage, and APIs for scalable SaaS.
Partner with SRE on availability, disaster recovery, and observability; design for fault tolerance and capacity.
Set standards and patterns across services, APIs, and deployment models to guide teams through modernization.
Improve CI/CD and developer tooling with Platform Engineering; make infrastructure easily consumable by product teams.
Establish reference architectures and best practices; run architecture reviews for security, scalability, and reliability.
Evaluate emerging technologies, prototype approaches, and address architectural debt.
Mentor senior engineers and raise architectural maturity org-wide.

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