Architect
Summary
Architect distributed, cloud-native microservices systems using patterns like Saga, CQRS, and Circuit Breaker, driving containerization with Docker/Kubernetes and observability via Prometheus/Grafana on major cloud platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Architecture & Design: Design event-driven, cloud-native microservices using design patterns like Saga, Circuit Breaker, CQRS, and Strangler patterns.
- System Boundaries: Define bounded contexts and single-responsibility services aligned with specific business domains.
- Inter-Service Communication: Design and enforce API-first contracts using REST, gRPC, or GraphQL.
- Data Management: Implement decentralized data management where each service manages its own datastore (NoSQL/RDBMS).
- Resilience & Reliability: Design for failure by implementing retries, timeouts, bulkheads, and distributed tracing.
- Infrastructure & DevOps: Drive containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines to allow automated deployments.
- Observability: Ensure comprehensive logging, monitoring, and tracing are integrated across all services using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Essential Qualifications & Tech Stack
- Experience: Typically 8+ years in software engineering with a minimum of 3-5 years focusing purely on distributed systems and microservices.
- Programming Languages: Deep expertise in backend ecosystems such as Java/Spring Boot, Go (Golang), Python, or Node.js.
- Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
- Message Brokers: Familiarity with event streaming and message queues (Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SQS).
- Security & Governance: Knowledge of zero-trust architectures, OAuth 2.0, SAML, and API Gateways.
- Soft Skills: Strong technical leadership, excellent documentation abilities, and cross-team communication to evangelize microservices best practices.
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