Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Overview

Summary: Math Works has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. This role focuses on providing deep technical leadership across system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platforms for our Private Cloud initiatives. The candidate will act as a trusted technical authority, consulting across teams, mentoring senior engineers and architects, and ensuring designs meet standards for scalability, reliability, and security.

The role requires being a recognized expert in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with a focus on security design reviews and architectural governance. This position collaborates with senior technical leaders across engineering, platform, and security teams.

• Define and evolve system and platform architectures for large scale, distributed Private Cloud systems
• Provide architectural guidance on multi account, multitenant, and isolated cloud environments
• Review and influence designs across compute, networking, identity, data, and observability layers
• Ensure architectural decisions align with long term platform strategy and operational realities
• Advise teams on scalability, fault tolerance, availability, and resilience in complex distributed systems
• Identify systemic risks and architectural tradeoffs early, and guide teams toward sustainable solutions
• Act as a point of escalation for complex cross system design challenges
• Serve as a security design review authority, participating in and leading formal architecture and security reviews
• Evaluate designs for compliance with security, privacy, and data protection principles
• Partner with security teams to ensure consistent application of threat modeling, identity architecture, and defense in depth strategies
• Help raise the overall security architecture maturity across the organization
• Act as a consulting architect to engineering and platform teams—providing guidance rather than owning delivery
• Mentor senior engineers and architects, raising the technical bar through design reviews, architectural critiques, and broad influence
• Help establish architectural best practices, reference architectures, and shared principles

• A bachelor s degree and 10 years of professional work experience (or equivalent experience) is required.

• Deep experience designing and reviewing large scale distributed systems in production
• Expert level knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or equivalent), including account structures, networking, identity, and security
• Proven track record as a system or platform architect influencing designs across multiple teams
• Strong background in security architecture, including design reviews, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts clearly to senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders

• Experience with regulated or security sensitive environments
• Familiarity with Kubernetes based platforms, infrastructure as code, and observability systems
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or acting as a technical leader on a team