Cloud Platform Architect

Job Description

• Modernize Signifyd’s Cloud Platform to scale for security, cost, operational excellence, reliability, and performance, working closely with Engineering and Data Science teams across Signifyd’s R&D group. • Create and deliver a technology roadmap focused on advancing our cloud performance capabilities, supporting our real-time fraud protection and prevention via our core products. • Work alongside Architects, Software Engineers, ML Engineers, and Data Scientists to develop innovative big data processing solutions for scaling our core product for eCommerce fraud prevention. • Take full ownership of our Cloud Platform evolution to support low-latency, high-quality, high-scale decisioning for Signifyd’s flagship product.

Qualifications

• Ideally has 10-15+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering and automation, including at least five years of experience as a cloud engineering architect or lead. Have successfully navigated the challenges of working with large-scale cloud environments encompassing millions of dollars of computing costs and many petabytes of data storage and process. • Deep understanding of best practices and current trends in cloud providers, are comfortable working with multi-terabyte datasets, and skilled in high-scale data ingestion, transformation, and distributed processing; experience in understanding Apache Spark or Databricks is a plus. • Deep understanding of Container-based systems such as Kubernetes (k8s), Docker, ECS, EKS, GKE, and others. • Deep understanding of Networking concepts such as DNS / Route53, ELB/ALB, Networking load balancing, IAM rules, VPC peering and data connectivity, NAT gateways, Network bridge technology such as Megaport, and others. • Experience converting existing Cloud infrastructure to serverless architecture patterns (AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Aurora, etc.), deploying via Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS Cloud Formation / CDK. • Hands-on expertise in data technologies with proficiency in technologies such as Spark, Airflow, Databricks, AWS services (SQS, Kinesis, etc.), and Kafka. Understand the trade-offs of various architectural approaches and recommend solutions suited to our needs. • Executed the planning of product and infrastructure software releases • Experience in developing, deploying, and managing CI/CD developer tooling like AWS Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, JetBrains TeamCity, and GitHub Enterprise. • Understanding how to appropriately deploy, integrate, and maintain Developer build and scanning tools such as Develocity Gradle Enterprise, Sonarqube, Maven, Snyk, CyCode, and others. • Deep knowledge of best practices around Logging, Monitoring, and Observability tools such as AWS Cloudwatch, Datadog, Loggly, and others. • Demonstrable ability to lead and mentor engineers, fostering their growth and development. • You have successfully partnered with Product and Engineering teams to lead through strategic initiatives. • Commitment to quality: you take pride in delivering work that excels in accuracy, performance, and reliability, setting a high standard for the team and the organization.

Benefits

• Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!) • 401K Match • Stock Options • Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions • Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks) • On-Demand Therapy for all employees & their dependents • Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly • Health Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) • Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance • Life Insurance • Company Social Events • Signifyd Swag