Principal Architect (Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies)

We are looking for a Principal Architect with expertise in Operating Systems, Hypervisors, Virtual Machines, and Containers, with good Cloud-Native tendencies, to lead the architecture and design of next-generation infrastructure services. In this role, you will be working embedded as part of engineering development teams, engaging as a core member of the Compute system architecture team.

As a Principal,Architect, you will be responsible for:

• Owning the system design and implementation, helping to guide engineering while ensuring alignment with the big picture.

• Working with product managers and product architects to help inform the product direction.

• Contributing to and helping to shape the engineering roadmap by working with product and engineering management and other business stakeholders.

• Developing best practices, sharing knowledge, and mentoring.

• Collaborating with engineering teams in an Agile environment that fosters innovative solutions, rapid development cycles, and open communication.

• Have 15 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent.

• Demonstrate extensive experience building large-scale fault-tolerant, production services using Virtualization and Cloud-Native technologies (e.g. qemu, kvm, Kubernetes, Cilium, etc.)

• Have advanced knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as Operator/Controller patterns, custom resources, etc.

• Have experience and good understanding of operating systems, containers and the technologies that revolve around them (e.g., systemd, docker, containerd, ArgoCD, etc.)

• Demonstrate significant experience with Linux, Go, Python, Bash.

• Have a good understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS with experience in one or