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CloudTen Product Engineering

Principal Software Architect — Digital Platforms

Provide architectural leadership across CloudTen’s major digital platforms, setting the technical standards for secure, scalable and internationally deployable products.

CT-ARC-001Full-timeGlobal applications$175,000–$225,000 USD reference range

The opportunity

What you will own

  • Define reference architectures, platform boundaries, integration patterns and engineering guardrails across CloudTen products.
  • Lead system-design reviews covering scalability, availability, security, privacy, observability and maintainability.
  • Guide API, event, data, identity, cloud and deployment architecture across multi-product engineering teams.
  • Translate product strategy into pragmatic technical roadmaps and architectural decision records.
  • Mentor senior engineers and help establish consistent engineering standards, quality gates and technical governance.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption only where they create measurable product or operational value.

What you bring

Core qualifications

  • Substantial senior-level software architecture and distributed-systems experience in production environments.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, APIs, relational data, event-driven systems, CI/CD and observability.
  • Evidence of designing systems with security, privacy and resilience as first-class requirements.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical decisions clearly to engineers, product leaders and executives.
  • Experience leading architecture across multiple teams, products or business domains.

Additional strengths

Preferred experience

  • Experience with real-time communications, healthcare technology, identity/security platforms or regulated systems.
  • Experience building products used across multiple countries or regions.
  • Strong familiarity with modern threat modelling and secure software development practices.

Employment, compensation and fair recruitment

The published USD range is a U.S.-market reference range for this role. Final compensation, benefits, employment classification, payroll, tax treatment and statutory entitlements are determined by the employing entity, work location, experience and applicable law.

CloudTen does not charge candidates recruitment, placement, processing or employment fees. Qualified applicants are assessed against job-related requirements. Reasonable accommodation is available during recruitment where required by applicable law.

BYU-Pathway Worldwide students and graduates: qualified candidates are especially welcome to apply. Participation in recognised CloudTen talent-development or university programmes may receive positive consideration where lawful, while appointments remain merit-based and subject to the published requirements.