Reltio
Principal Architect-Platform
United states · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
PythonJavaGoRustScalaNoSQLElasticsearchCassandraAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringKafkaMachine LearningSparkAirflowLLMsRAGAgentic AILangGraph
About the role
- We embrace our differences and are "Better Together" as One Reltio.
- We hold ourselves accountable for our actions and outcomes and strive for excellence.
- Every day, we innovate and evolve, so that today is "Always Better Than Yesterday".
Responsibilities
- maintain ADRs and tech radars.
- Design at scale: Lead designs for multi-tenant isolation, data models, schemas, indexing/OLAP, and event-driven systems.
- Security & privacy: Lead threat models, data classification, encryption, secrets, key management, and SBOM/SLSA controls.
- build a healthy review culture.
- convert requirements into pragmatic designs and phased delivery.
- Mentor & scale: Coach Staff/Principal engineers and architects; chair architecture reviews; build a healthy review culture.
- Customer evangelism: Join key enterprise conversations; convert requirements into pragmatic designs and phased delivery.
- Partner with product and security to embed responsible LLM/agentic patterns (guardrails, retrieval, evals) into customer-facing and internal developer workflows.
- Champion SRE/SOC2/ISO/GDPR-by-design, error budgets, threat modeling, and secure SDLC.
- Lead designs for multi-tenant isolation, data models, schemas, indexing/OLAP, and event-driven systems.
Requirements
- 20+ years in product/platform architecture for large-scale, cloud-native SaaS
- Data platform & streaming expertise: Kafka/Flink/Spark
- Cross-geo orchestration: proven delivery across US/EU/India time zones
- recent Principal/Distinguished Architect scope leading end-to-end product decisions and migrations across multi-cloud.
- Cloud & Kubernetes depth: EKS/AKS/GKE
- service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), platform control planes, operators/CRDs. Able to define golden paths/paved roads for teams.
- columnar/OLAP (Druid, ClickHouse), NoSQL (Cassandra), search (Elasticsearch/Opensearch)
- real-time + batch patterns.
- Microservices & integration at enterprise scale: API gateways, event-driven design, SOA/EAI (Apache Camel/Mule/WSO2/JBoss Fuse).
- AI/ML & Agentic AI in production: ML pipelines (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow) and LLM/agent frameworks (OpenAI APIs, LLaMA, LangChain/LangGraph
- tool-use, memory, evals).
- Security, privacy, and compliance by design: threat modeling, data classification, encryption/keys, and EU GDPR awareness through real product work.
- Executive communication & customer leadership: converts complex trade-offs into simple choices
Nice to have
- Cost/performance engineering: track record reducing infra cost per tenant and improving p95/p99 latency/MTTR via capacity planning, workload placement, and autoscaling patterns.
- Programming fluency: Java/Scala/Python/Go/Rust for credible code-review and reference implementations.
- OSS & ecosystem contribution: prior contributions to relevant frameworks (e.g., Hadoop tuning, NoSQL ORM, Camel/Keycloak) a plus.
- Reltio is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
- Reltio is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
- prior contributions to relevant frameworks (e.g., Hadoop tuning, NoSQL ORM, Camel/Keycloak) a plus.
Skills
- Standardize service meshes, API gateways, policy-as-code, and multi-cloud deployment patterns.
- EKS/AKS/GKE; service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), platform control planes, operators/CRDs.
- Able to define golden paths/paved roads for teams.
- ML pipelines (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow) and LLM/agent frameworks (OpenAI APIs, LLaMA, LangChain/LangGraph; tool-use, memory, evals).
Benefits
- Reltio was founded on a distributed workforce and offers flexible work arrangements to help our people manage their personal and professional lives.
- We need a Principal Architect to set the end-to-end architecture vision, de-risk the roadmap, and turn strategy into secure, reliable, cost-efficient systems-while upleveling the engineering organization.
Company info
- converts complex trade-offs into simple choices; partners with CXO/stakeholders globally; architecture evangelism with customers.
- uplevels Staff/Principal engineers, codifies paved roads (CI/CD, testing, observability), and scales architectural patterns via ADRs/radars.
- Translate architecture trade-offs for executives and key customers; guide buy-build-integrate decisions.
- At Reltio, our values guide everything we do.
- With an unyielding commitment to prioritizing our "Customer First", we strive to ensure their success.
- If you share and embody these values, we invite you to join our team at Reltio and contribute to our mission of excellence.
- Reltio has earned numerous awards and industry and analyst recognition for our technology, our culture and our people.
- If you're ready to work on unrivaled technology where your desire to be part of a collaborative team is met with a laser-focused mission to enable digital transformation with connected data, let's talk!
Visa & Work Authorization
- al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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