Principal, Platform Architecture Job Description

PagerDuty is seeking a Principal Platform Architect to join our diverse, and customer-focused team! As Principal Platform Architect you will be responsible for leading the architecture and design of our software product's platform and shared services.  This is an exciting opportunity to lead technical strategy across multiple teams and across organizational groups through direct contributions (coding and design) as well as scaling through others (technical leadership, mentorship). The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of cloud computing, microservices, and distributed systems. They will also have experience with leading and mentoring a team of architects and engineers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and lead the overall architecture strategy and implementation for our software product's platform and shared services model, coordinating across multiple teams

• Design and develop high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions. Lead a strategy that helps us sustain our industry leading availability and trust in our product.

• Collaborate with product teams, engineers, user research, and user experience stakeholders to understand business strategy, product goals and requirements and translate them into technical designs.

• Work with multiple engineering teams to break down long term plans to implement platform strategy on a three year horizon into shorter term initiatives (12mo – 18 mo horizon) and projects (3-4 month phases). Balance delivering impactful outcomes in shorter time periods while still progressing towards long term strategic goals.

• Evangelize the overall platform vision and technical choices, solicit and ensure buy-in from other engineering groups by relating their work to our long-term strategic goals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in software architecture and design.

• Must have designed a system that operates at a large enterprise scale and availability (ex: 1M requests / second)

• Must have Microservices architecture experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing and building systems that run natively in cloud computing platforms, preferably AWS, or equivalent experience in Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

• Multi-tenant SAAS experience 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, naturally comfortable adapting your communication style and message for the audience and being an advocate and spokesperson for our strategy and results

• Experience with API-First environments, and building Isolated subsystems with corresponding well-specified, versioned service interfaces (APIs)

The base salary range for this position is 177,000 - 251,000 CAD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.