Staff Cloud Native Architect

We’re looking for a Staff Cloud Native Architect to join our Infrastructure team in Helsinki HQ. You can also work remotely from Finland.

In this role, you will…

• Act as a key technical leader for all cloud-related matters.


• Serve as an ambassador between our Internal Platform and its users across Product & Development.


• Guide our technical strategy using your deep knowledge in Kubernetes, cloud architectures, and software development.


• Ensure our platform is a robust, reliable, and secure foundation for future growth.


• Focus on solving complex distributed systems challenges.

Your day-to-day work and responsibilities include…

• Act as the subject matter expert for our cloud-native platform, adapting industry practices for Kubernetes, public cloud, security, and distributed systems to our particular challenges.


• Guide and support the shift from our old monolithic apps to modern, Kubernetes-based services.


• Help shape the long-term vision and build our scalable, multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure.


• Improve how we observe system and application performance, with a focus on our use of OpenTelemetry and the various observability platforms we send our signals to.


• Advice on choosing, scaling and generally managing databases across our stack, running PoCs to expand our internal self-service offering as required.


• Evolve the strategy for our Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and GitOps practices, researching and supporting self-service patterns (e.g. using Backstage) to empower developers.


• Research and test new technologies to improve developer experience and platform capabilities.


• Collaborate with internal and external teams in company wide projects that require deep cloud/Kubernetes expertise.

Technologies you’ll be using…

• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Contour, Terraform, Crossplane


• Cloud Providers: AWS & GCP


• Database Systems: PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, ClickHouse


• Observability: OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics, Elastic Stack


• Development & Scripting: Go, Python, Bash, GitHub Cloud/Enterprise


• Other Services: Aiven, Redis Co., Cloudflare

This position is for you if you have…

• Experience in effectively designing and operating large-scale cloud environments in a platform, SRE, or architecture team.


• Deep experience architecting complex, distributed systems, thinking in patterns and long-term strategy.


• Guided teams through breaking down monolithic apps and moving them to Kubernetes.


• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, including networking and security across clouds.


• Direct experience with tools like VictoriaMetrics/Elastic and OpenTelemetry.


• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts, inference workloads, and agent frameworks.


• A solid background in software development (Go, Python) with the ability to prototype and write quality code.


• Experience deploying and running modern databases (relational and NoSQL) in production in cloud native environments (with a preference for Kubernetes).


• Extensive experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and promoting self-service (e.g., Backstage).


• Been able to explain complex tech to anyone and guided technical direction for whole products in a SaaS company.


• Dedicated to diving into tough technical problems and finding pragmatic solutions.

Nice to have…

• Experience building and promoting a "platform-as-a-product" for internal developer customers.


• Experience with cloud financial management (FinOps) and architecting for cost-efficiency.


• Deep knowledge in cloud security, including threat modeling, network security, and identity management.


• Experience designing and developing reusable, scalable IaC (Terraform modules, Crossplane Compositions) for a wide audience.


• A history of contributing to open-source projects in the cloud-native space.

Benefits we offer…

• Competitive compensation package, including equity


• Great work equipment, and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations


• Health care benefit and leisure time insurance


• Sports and wellbeing allowance 

Benefits may vary depending on location. 

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