Cloud Platform Architect

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We are Bugcrowd. Since 2012, we’ve been empowering organizations to take back control and stay ahead of threat actors by uniting the collective ingenuity and expertise of our customers and a trusted alliance of elite hackers with our patented data and AI‑powered Security Knowledge Platform™. Our network of hackers brings diverse expertise to uncover hidden weaknesses, adapting swiftly to evolving threats—even against zero‑day exploits.

With unmatched scalability and adaptability, our data and AI‑driven Crowd Match™ technology finds the perfect talent for your unique fight, helping us create a new era of modern crowdsourced security that outpaces threat actors. Visit  to learn more. Bugcrowd is based in San Francisco and New Hampshire.

We are seeking a highly skilled Cloud Platform Architect to design, implement, and optimize cloud‑native platforms that support modern API‑driven systems and microfront end applications. You will define architectural standards, lead cloud‑native design efforts, and collaborate closely with frontend and platform teams to ensure seamless integration between microservices, APIs, and microfront ends. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud security best practices, infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC), and optimizing distributed, high‑availability, and fault‑tolerant systems.

You will be instrumental in defining our cloud strategy and ensuring our infrastructure scales securely and efficiently to meet the demands of our global customer base.

• Architect cloud‑native backend systems optimized for scalability, resilience, and cost‑efficiency.
• Define and promote cloud‑optimized design patterns such as microservices, event‑driven architecture, service mesh, and containerized workloads.
• Ensure backend systems integrate cleanly with microfront end architectures through well‑designed APIs and edge services.
• Create architectural blueprints, system diagrams, and technical standards for cloud‑native platforms.

• Champion an API‑first design methodology, ensuring all services expose clear, versioned, documented, and secure APIs.
• Collaborate with frontend/microfront end teams to define and evolve API contracts that ensure consistency across the platform.
• Implement API governance, gateways, and standards to support scale and maintainability.

• Design and maintain modular, scalable microservices aligned with business domains (DDD, bounded contexts).
• Optimize backend performance, latency, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Provide architectural guidance to backend teams around service decomposition, data ownership, caching strategies, and observability.

• Develop and maintain the multi‑cloud architecture strategy (AWS/GCP), focusing on resilience, cost optimization, performance, and security.
• Design and document scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments for new and existing platform components.
• Evaluate and recommend new cloud technologies and services to improve platform capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate business requirements into robust, scalable cloud infrastructure designs.

• Lead the adoption and continuous improvement of Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Oversee and mentor teams in the deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud resources and services (e.g., Kubernetes, serverless components, databases, networking).
• Establish and enforce best practices for configuration management, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and automated provisioning/de‑provisioning.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies to ensure high visibility into system health and performance.

• Embed security principles and controls into the cloud architecture from the initial design phase (Security by Design).
• Work closely with the Security team to ensure all cloud infrastructure meets Bugcrowd's…