Upstart 13

Solutions Architect

Upstart 13

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices

About the role

  • Define and Develop Architectural Strategy
  • Create detailed architecture, blueprints, system designs, and long‑term technical roadmaps
  • Establish architectural standards, best practices, and reference patterns
  • Design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and integrations
  • Evaluate trade‑offs between scalability, security, cost, performance, and maintainability
  • Define long‑term system evolution and modernization strategies
  • Architect and optimize cloud or hybrid infrastructures
  • Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, resilience, and scalable configurations
  • Lead adoption and optimization of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
  • Define deployment strategies, release workflows, and environment management
  • Promote automation, performance monitoring, observability, and operational excellence
  • Contribute directly to architecture, critical code components, or prototypes
  • Support engineering teams in debugging, incident resolution, and performance improvements
  • Partner with Sales and Customer Success during the pre-sales cycle
  • Participate in discovery conversations and proposal development
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and propose how they support architectural evolution
  • Mentor and guide engineers and technical leads to elevate technical excellence.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional experience in software engineering
  • 5+ years with significant architectural responsibilities
  • Proven experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
  • Strong understanding of system design fundamentals
  • Experience leading technical design across large-scale or mission-critical systems
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps best practices
  • Strong familiarity with Cloud environments
  • Ability to set technical direction and influence architectural decisions
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking mindset
  • Pragmatic problem-solving skills with a strategic perspective
  • Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • High ownership, proactivity, and comfort working in evolving environments
  • Curiosity and openness to emerging technologies and innovative solutions.
  • Experience modernizing legacy systems or scaling high-transaction platforms (bonus)
  • Exposure to cloud-native, containerized, or microservices-oriented environments (bonus)
  • Experience implementing workflow orchestration, task automation, or event-driven architectures (bonus)
  • AI/ML integration experience or familiarity with modern AI frameworks (bonus)
  • Professional cloud certifications or architecture-related credentials (bonus).
Benefits
  • 20+ Paid time off days.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
architectural strategysystem designdistributed systemscloud infrastructureDevOps practicesCI/CD pipelinesautomationperformance monitoringincident resolutionworkflow orchestration
Soft Skills
analytical mindsetsystems thinkingproblem-solvingcommunicationownershipproactivitycuriositymentoringinfluencingstrategic perspective
Certifications
professional cloud certificationsarchitecture-related credentials