Private Cloud Architect

Position Overview

The Infrastructure Systems Engineering team is in the midst of building our next-generation private cloud infrastructure as part of a greenfield initiative to in-house existing internal use cases on public cloud and support new initiatives. The historical deployment primarily supported our database test system: A system that runs over 7.25 million tests per month, writes petabytes to storage daily, and we’re currently scaling multiple times in the next year alone.

As an Architect, Private Cloud, you will drive the top-level design and evolution of our private cloud with particular ownership of the network architecture and an eye to security, scalability, and cost efficiency. You’ll collaborate closely with a small, highly skilled team to drive a careful balance between battle-hardened best practices and creative innovation in an environment that embraces working from first principles, celebration of failure, and egoless technical discussion.

This role offers the opportunity to shape SingleStore’s private cloud strategy while exploring AI-powered approaches to automation, monitoring, and infrastructure optimization.

Role And Responsibilities

• Engage in the design and development of major infrastructure components and systems, focusing on fault tolerance and performance.
• Provide organizational expertise in network architecture, security, and best practices.
• Practice principles of distributed leadership - being comfortable shifting between leading, collaborating with, and following your peers on different projects
• Own your systems end-to-end from design to production.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure the successful integration and operation of our infrastructure systems.
• Do your part to foster an environment where people take chances because they aren’t punished for mistakes and improve over time because they learn from not just their mistakes but those of others.
• Enable fact-driven decision-making by deferring to the data or code in question whenever possible.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability and usability.

Required Skills And Experience

• At least 10 years of experience developing and optimizing systems software and infrastructure architecture.
• Deep expertise (can speak both to system level and implementation detail) in networking and able to demonstrate broader knowledge in at least some other private cloud-related fields:
• virtualization
• storage
• service modeling & REST API/SDK generation
• scientific or high-performance computing
• kernel development
• Experience with, or at least hobbyist interest in, distributed elastic AI / LLM CPU inference (e.g. OpenVino, llama.cpp).
• Natural curiosity or drive to learn about new or adjacent technologies.
• Experience designing, developing, and/or troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Comfort with at least one systems programming language (C/C++, golang) and one scripting language (python, bash).
• Comfort with shells on *nix family systems.
• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of zero-trust security models and private cloud compliance standards.
• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity.
• Experience with low latency networking (e.g. DPDK, RDMA).
• Experience implementing SLAs/SLOs, incident management, and reliability best practices.
• Experience with, or interest in, applying AI to automate private cloud insights and improvements.
• Familiarity with, or interest in, SingleStore or other distributed SQL databases

SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv. 

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

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