Platform Architect

Aura is on a mission to create a safer internet.  In a world where our lives are increasingly online, Aura's category-defining suite of intelligent digital safety products help millions of customers protect themselves against digital threats, and that number is growing rapidly.  This is an exciting phase at Aura, and our team of over 400 people worldwide is guided by a leadership slate that's successfully grown startups into multi-billion dollar organizations. 

Come build with us!

Day to day:

• Design, document, and drive the architectural vision and strategy for backend services, ensuring scalability, reliability, security and alignment with business goals.
• Define and govern technical standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud infrastructure and application development. Serve as a technical expert for the AWS serverless ecosystem, including Lambda functions, API Gateways, managed databases (e.g., DynamoDB/RDS), and CloudWatch.
• Develop, maintain, and evolve the platform's infrastructure using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), with a focus on reusable modules and automation.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies using tools such as GitHub Actions to automate the software development lifecycle for both infrastructure and application code.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability.
• Provide technical guidance and consultation on complex design challenges, performance tuning, and operational efficiency.
• Drive adoption of new technologies and platform capabilities, ensuring a smooth transition for development teams.
• Establish and enforce best practices for platform monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Ensure the platform adheres to security, compliance, and cost-management policies.
• This position is 100% remote; may work from home.

What you bring to the table:

• Must possess at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Computer Science or a related field and at least 5 years of progressive experience as a Software Engineer Lead/ Manager or in a related role managing software engineers/development teams.
• At least 5 years of experience providing software engineering technical leadership
• At least 5 years of experience working with regulated data, information security and privacy requirements
• At least 5 years of experience leading international teams
• At least 5 years of experience working with AWS, including AWS management/containers, serverless architecture, Lambda functions, managed databases, API Gateways and CloudWatch
• At least 5 years of experience working with Terraform to define and managing Cloud infrastructure
• At least 3 years of experience with GitHub Actions or similar automated build and deploy tools tied to the software development lifecycle that control both infrastructure and software
• At least 2 years of experience with data warehouse tools/systems (Databricks or Snowflake).

The salary range for this position is from $238,285 to 316,000 per year.  To apply send your resume to hr@aura.com, and reference Job Code A626W.

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