Staff Engineer (Product Architecture, JetBrains Cloud Platform)

Requirements

• Strong experience in software engineering and system design, with a track record of working on complex systems
• Experience owning architecture within a product or domain, including balancing delivery needs with long-term sustainability
• Comfortable aligning product needs with platform capabilities and constraints (and negotiating trade-offs when needed)
• Facilitate architectural decision-making inside a team and across partner teams
• Comfortable working in an environment where many processes and standards are still being formed
• Motivated by long-term goals, designing for evolution rather than one-off implementations

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing product architectures that operate in cloud environments and integrate with multiple systems
• Strong at reasoning about architectural trade-offs in context (time-to-market vs correctness, flexibility vs complexity, etc.)
• Enjoy helping teams converge on good solutions through collaboration, not enforcement

What You'll Be Doing

• Own the architecture of a specific product domain within JetBrains Cloud Platform and evolve it over time
• Translate product and domain requirements into clear architectural designs and implementation approaches
• Define service boundaries, domain models, data flows, and integration contracts, in line with platform standards
• Drive key architectural decisions and trade-offs in your area (e.g., API design, persistence, reliability, performance, and migration paths)
• Ensure your domain architecture supports scalability, reliability, and observability from the outset
• Review and validate architectural designs within your domain and team, raising quality and consistency
• Collaborate with platform architects and other domain owners to align on cross-cutting decisions and shared interfaces
• Work closely with senior and staff engineers to clarify requirements, reduce ambiguity, and support execution

Perks and Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer fostering an open and inclusive workplace
• Emphasis on welcoming everyone regardless of background, identity, religion, age, accessibility needs, or orientation
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