Software Architect, Systems Engineer

Our Culture and Impact
Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,000+ employees and 24,000+ customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. We’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

Overview
Hybrid: 2 days in office.

AI at Cvent:
Leading the Future
Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology, experiment boldly, share discoveries, and help define best practices for AI‑augmented work.

Through the interview process, you’ll demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact.

In This Role, You Will

Shape and lead a company‑wide engineering guild focused on secure‑by‑default practices, modern SDLC patterns, and architectural consistency across our SaaS platforms.

Design and build developer‑centric frameworks, libraries, and automation that improve system reliability, maintainability, and security—without slowing delivery.

Work hands‑on in code (Java, Type Script, IaC) to create reusable components, integration patterns, and platform building blocks used across engineering teams.

Enhance CI/CD pipelines with guardrails, automated checks, and feedback loops that improve code quality, reduce vulnerabilities, and streamline developer workflows.

Partner with product, platform, and cloud engineering teams to evolve architecture standards, ensuring distributed systems are scalable, observable, and resilient.

Lead design reviews and provide architectural guidance across services, APIs, storage systems, and cloud infrastructure, helping teams make high‑quality technical decisions.

Introduce modern engineering patterns and tooling, including AI‑assisted static analysis, automated detection systems, and secure‑by‑default scaffolding.

Build documentation, best practices, and training materials that raise engineering excellence and empower developers to own security as part of system design.

Collaborate with external partners and vendors to evaluate new technologies and integrate capabilities into platform workflows.

Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture, promoting craftsmanship, simplicity, and scalable design across the stack.

Help guide long‑term architectural strategy, adapting secure development practices to new technologies and emerging patterns (e.g., AI systems, microservices evolution, event‑driven architectures).

Here’s What You Need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

10+ years of experience building and architecting distributed systems for enterprise or large‑scale SaaS platforms.

Strong hands‑on coding experience with Java, Type Script, cloud‑native services, and infrastructure‑as‑code (CDK, Cloud Formation, Terraform, etc.).

Deep understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, networking, caching, and persistence technologies.

Experience designing and implementing automation in CI/CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).

Demonstrated ability to modernize engineering practices across multiple teams through frameworks, tooling, and shared architectural patterns.

Familiarity with foundational security engineering principles—secure coding, service hardening, identity and access models, threat considerations—even if not in a security‑only role.

Strong communication skills and the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and leadership.

A track record of solving complex problems, driving change, and mentoring engineers through architectural decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience improving security…