We are looking for a Principal Architect who combines deep technical mastery with product sensibility, business understanding, and organizational insight. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad influence and high visibility across engineering, product, and leadership.
You will shape the architecture of our platform across multiple domains, drive strategic technical decisions, and partner with cross-functional leaders to align architectural direction with product, business, and organizational goals.
You are not just a technologist - you are a systems thinker who understands how technology enables outcomes, how teams and organizations scale, and how product strategy and technical strategy intersect.
What Youll Do
Architectural Ownership & Thought Leadership
Lead architecture across core domains, such as:
Distributed systems at massive scale
Streaming and real-time data pipelines
Query engines, analytics, and data processing
Storage architectures and object-store-based systems
SaaS control planes and high-scale multi-tenancy
Anticipate systemic needs, identify opportunities, and drive architectural initiatives end-to-end - from design through alignment and delivery
Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for senior engineering, product, and executive stakeholders
Cross-Functional Impact
Translate product and business strategy into architectural trade-offs and decisions
Help define the how behind ambitious organizational outcomes (e.g., performance, reliability, cost efficiency, developer velocity at petabyte-scale)
Mentor and influence engineers across teams to elevate architectural quality and execution
Organizational Intelligence in Practice
Embody an integrative perspective: understand technology constraints, product priorities, customer problems, and organizational dynamics
Help shape how the company thinks about architecture as a strategic asset - not just a technical discipline.
Requirements: Depth and Breadth
Proven long-term experience shaping large-scale data systems in production and defining technical direction
Strong background with hyperscale or high-growth data platforms (analytics engines, databases, streaming systems, etc.)
Systems AND Strategy
Deep understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, storage and query execution, and complex streaming and batch processing
An ability to navigate technical complexity while grounding decisions in business outcomes and product value
Influence and Leadership
Track record influencing across engineering, product, and leadership, using trust and strong people skills
Strong communicator who can advocate for robust architectural direction and build alignment
Organizational Insight
Evidence of thinking beyond code - you understand organizational structures, collaboration patterns, and how teams deliver at scale
Strong Advantage
Previous R&D leadership experience
Active involvement in open-source projects as a contributor or maintainer
Why This Role Matters
Youll work on systems that operate at multi-petabyte daily scale, where architecture truly matters.
Your decisions will shape not just products, but the foundation of a new category.
Youll partner with engineers and leaders who value deep technical excellence and strategic thinking.
Youll help define how our company - and ultimately our customers - make sense of and act on organizational data.
Cultural Fit
Were seeking candidates who are hungry, humble, and smart. our company fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning, where team members are encouraged to challenge the status quo and contribute to our shared mission. If you thrive in dynamic environments and are eager to shape the future of observability solutions, wed love to hear from you.
This position is open to all candidates.