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Principal Architect, Software Engineering - Distributed Fault Tolerant Systems, Resilience and Self Healing

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Software Engineering, IT
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Dec 8, 2025

Description

We are defining the next generation of trusted enterprise computing in the cloud. We're a fast-paced, metrics driven team. We're highly collaborative and work across all areas of our technology stack. We live and breathe transactional systems, distributed systems and enterprise reliability, availability and scale.

The team is seeking a highly qualified and energetic Principal Architect who will be responsible for working on development scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems architecture.

The PA role is a strategic position focused on the management of Transactional Layer Storage and Compute. This encompasses metadata persistence, log persistence, data persistence, and database compute. Operations are governed by the control plane to ensure safe change compliance while adhering to Trust SLAs, which include resiliency, self-healing, autoscaling, the introduction of new substrates, and new features. The Principal Architect is responsible for envisioning and driving service automation outcomes through the control plane.

Required Skills:

  • Experience designing, developing scalable, resilient and fault tolerant transactional and distributed systems in enterprise production environments

  • Effective communication, strong leadership skills, team player who is capable of mentoring and being mentored by others

  • Inventive and creative; on task and able to deliver incrementally and on time

  • Highly skilled in Java in a Unix/Linux Environment, with an understanding of modern object oriented programming techniques and design patterns

  • Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence

  • Ability to learn quickly and deliver high quality code in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment

  • A meticulous and detailed oriented engineer, responsible for writing one’s own functional and unit tests and help review and test teammates' code

  • Familiar with Agile development methodology and committed to continual improvement of team performance

  • You should have 15+ years of professional experience, or a M.Sc. in a relevant academic field and 12+ years of professional experience. Experience with relational databases is a big plus.

  • You should have 15+ years of professional experience, or a M.Sc. in a relevant academic field and 12+ years of professional experience. Experience with relational databases is a big plus.

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