Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Job Summary

Math Works has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More:

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Software Engineer to providedeep technical leadership across system architecture, distributed systems, and cloud platforms for Math Works Cloud initiatives. In addition to implementation and delivery responsibilities, you will act as atrusted technical authority, consulting across teams, mentoring senior engineers and architects, and ensuring our designs meet the highest standards forscalability, reliability, and security.

You will be arecognized expert in cloud and distributed systems architecture, with a particular focus onsecurity design reviews and architectural governance. This role works closely with senior technical leaders across engineering,platform, and security teams.

Math Works nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

• Define and evolvesystem and platform architecturesforlargescale, distributed Private Cloud systems
• Providearchitectural guidance onmultiaccount, multitenant, and isolated cloud environments
• Review and influence designs acrosscompute, networking, identity, data, and observability layers
• Ensure architectural decisions align withlongtermplatform strategy and operational realities

• Advise teams on scalability, fault tolerance, availability, and resiliencein complex distributed systems
• Identifysystemic risks and architectural tradeoffs early, and guide teams toward sustainable solutions
• Act as a point of escalation for complexcrosssystemdesign challenges

• Serve as asecurity design review authority,participating in and leading formal architecture and security reviews
• Evaluate designs for compliance with security, privacy, anddataprotectionprinciples
• Partner with security teams to ensure consistent application of threat modeling, identity architecture, and defense-in-depthstrategies
• Help raise the overall security architecture maturity across the organization

• Act as aconsulting 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, and1:manyinfluence
• Helpestablisharchitectural 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 reviewinglargescale distributed systemsin production
• Expert level knowledge ofcloud platforms(AWS, Azure, or equivalent), including account structures, networking, identity, and security
• Proven track recordas asystem or platform architectinfluencing designs across multiple teams
• Strong background insecurity 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 orsecuritysensitiveenvironments
• Familiarity with Kubernetesbasedplatforms,infrastructureascode, and observability systems
• Experience mentoringjuniorengineers or acting as a technical leaderon a team