Principal Software Architect, Platform Engineering

Chamberlain Group (CG) is a global leader in intelligent access and a Blackstone portfolio company. Powered by our myQ technology, we make access simple and secure for millions of homeowners, businesses, and communities worldwide.

• Lead the team to design and build the next generation Video Platform, a large‑scale, high‑availability system for video streaming, storage, and computer vision for IP cameras and other IoT devices.
• Identify and evaluate technologies and architecture designs that support a planet‑scale platform.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to produce thoughtful software designs of large scope and high complexity.
• Work with domain experts—AI/ML, user experience, infrastructure, database, firmware, and front‑end developers—to understand and analyze requirements for features and platform enhancements.
• Specify and implement APIs, architectural guidelines, and standards for cloud software development.
• Set coding standards and other best practices to create reusable code.
• Provide oversight of design review processes and implement process improvements to maintain high‑quality software applications.
• Assess functional team skills and process maturity, outline training plans, and develop a technology roadmap to drive continuous improvement within the application teams.
• Participate in technical assessment, scoping, and management of changes to the codebase for new business requirements, product enhancements, and other change requests across multiple scrum teams.
• Lead technical discussions in community of practice, design review, or other technical meeting forums.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to junior and senior engineers to increase software capability of the development teams.
• Report functional team strategy and roadmap to manager and director‑level stakeholders to align with company strategy.
• Stay current on modern technologies and innovations that can further enhance and improve the commercial success of myQ connectivity and video solutions.
• Ensure compliance with the security requirements set forth by the Information Security team and the established ISO 27001 Security Roles, Responsibilities, and Authorities document found in the ISMS Document Library.
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; ensure team compliance.
• Protect Chamberlain Group’s reputation by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Optional advanced degree in a directly applicable area of study may substitute for up to two (2) years of job‑related experience.
• 10+ years of relevant job‑related experience as defined in the Essential Duties and Responsibilities.
• 8 years of experience with cloud architecture and platform design.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining a large‑scale cloud platform.
• Experience defining functional process improvements and implementing change.
• Extensive experience in creating technical documentation and implementing standards of documentation for others to follow.
• Experience researching technologies and setting long‑term technical vision for the platform.
• Experience instituting best practices, principles, and standards for software development.
• Experience establishing software development life cycles.
• Experience building highly scalable and reliable software solutions platforms.
• Experience with Java technology stack, including Java SE, Java EE, JDBC, Hibernate.
• Experience with WebRTC, H.264, HLS, ICE, video relay.
• Experience with Eclipse, GIT.
• Experience with SQL, No‑SQL databases, queues, and messaging systems.
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools.
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS, ECR, Aurora, S3, KVS, SQS, Recognition, Code Pipeline.
• Experience interfacing with teams across the full stack, including firmware, middleware, and front‑end.
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