Position: Cloud Engineering Architect
Location: Bangalore | Work Mode: Hybrid
Experience: 8+ Years
Position Summary
Saarthee is looking for a Staff Technical Lead / Architect to anchor and scale a new engineering team dedicated to Cloud Streaming platforms. This hybrid role blends deep hands-on engineering with architectural ownership, where you will drive the design of complex distributed systems while partnering with domain experts to build a high-performing team from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Architecture & System Evolution
- Design and evolve scalable distributed systems supporting live streaming platforms
- Drive architectural direction across Kubernetes-based control planes, distributed state machines, and storage systems
- Contribute hands-on code to validate architectural decisions and model engineering best practices
- Modernize legacy systems while maintaining high availability and operational resilience
- Guide complex production issue resolution with durable, system-level fixes
Scale Engineering Teams
- Embed with existing teams to absorb system knowledge, operational workflows, and domain context
- Translate domain expertise into onboarding materials, technical standards, and knowledge frameworks
- Serve as the technical anchor and escalation point for the new team while maintaining strong alignment with core development teams
- Mentor and grow engineers into domain experts capable of independently supporting critical production systems
- Establish high standards for debugging rigor, documentation, observability, and operational excellence
Drive Cross-Team Collaboration
- Partner with infrastructure, SRE, hardware, and product teams to ensure scalable and resilient platform design
- Balance long-term modernization strategy with near-term production priorities
- Contribute to broader initiatives such as Kubernetes platform evolution, cloud-native architecture, and AI-assisted developer productivity
Required Skills
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
- 7+ years of hands-on development in Java, Rust, Python, C++, or similar
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes; controllers, operators, and CRDs are a plus
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, storage architectures (object/block), networking, and high-availability design
- Proven ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives and influence without direct authority
- Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and incident leadership skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including architectural documentation
Nice to Have
- Experience with streaming platforms, cloud gaming, or large-scale distributed systems
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (CDK, Terraform) and Kubernetes tooling (Helm, ArgoCD)
- Experience with hardware-integrated or fleet orchestration systems
- Track record of mentoring engineers and scaling distributed teams
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and modern cloud-native practices
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments
