Staff Cloud Software Engineer - Architect

ABOUT US:

Headquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world’s top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is committed to delivering innovative products that enhance people’s lives through faster, more reliable connectivity. With a commitment to excellence, TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and continues to grow its global footprint.

We believe technology changes the world for the better! At TP-Link Systems Inc, we are committed to crafting dependable, high-performance products to connect users worldwide with the wonders of technology. 

Embracing professionalism, innovation, excellence, and simplicity, we aim to assist our clients in achieving remarkable global performance and enable consumers to enjoy a seamless, effortless lifestyle. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the overall design, evolution, and continuous optimization of the company’s cloud-native infrastructure architecture, improving scalability, reliability, security, and operational readiness across the platform.
• Coordinate and align operations teams and infrastructure engineering teams on infrastructure architecture design and implementation, and drive standardization, platformization, and engineering excellence.
• Own the overall review, governance, and technical control of application microservice architectures, including service decomposition, dependency governance, service boundary definition, resilience design, and high-availability architecture.
• Design and plan edge deployment architectures, multi-cloud architectures, and hybrid deployment models, and define practical technical roadmaps based on business and platform needs.
• Make architecture decisions from a global perspective by balancing development efficiency, system complexity, infrastructure cost, operational efficiency, reliability, and security.
• Abstract infrastructure capabilities into reusable and scalable platform building blocks, and drive unified architecture design across compute, networking, storage, security, and observability domains.
• Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, operations, and security teams to build architectural alignment and solve complex cross-functional challenges.
• Stay current with technology trends in cloud-native infrastructure, microservices, multi-cloud, and edge architecture, and drive continuous architectural evolution aligned with business needs.

Requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform architecture, distributed systems architecture, or related areas.
• Hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure is required, with practical experience in multi-cloud architecture design, resource planning, and platform capability integration.
• Deep understanding of core managed services on AWS and Azure, with the ability to evaluate service fit, trade-offs, limitations, and long-term architectural implications.
• Strong ability to drive architecture from a global perspective, with sound judgment across platform design, business requirements, engineering efficiency, cost, reliability, and operations.
• Strong platform abstraction skills, with the ability to turn complex infrastructure capabilities into reusable, scalable, and governable platform capabilities and architectural standards.
• Broad technical knowledge across cloud-native infrastructure, microservices, container orchestration, networking, storage, security, observability, and CI/CD, with a solid understanding of the strengths, weaknesses, and trade-offs of major technologies.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture design, with the ability to review end-to-end application architecture and provide practical and actionable optimization guidance.
• Strong cross-functional communication, alignment, and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive execution across multiple teams on complex architectural topics.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive architectural evolution and resolve critical issues in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Experience with edge computing, edge deployment, or distributed architecture across regions.
• Experience with multi-cloud governance, hybrid cloud platform design, or cross-cloud architecture standardization.
• Experience with large-scale microservices, platform engineering, or enterprise infrastructure architecture governance.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost governance, or architecture-level cost optimization.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proficiency in Chinese in addition to English.

Benefits

Salary range: $180,000 - 235,000

• Free snacks and drinks
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
• Contributions to 401k funds
• Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
• Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
• Quarterly team-building events

At TP-Link Systems Inc., we are continually searching for ambitious individuals who are passionate about their work. We believe that diversity fuels innovation, collaboration, and drives our entrepreneurial spirit. As a global company, we highly value diverse perspectives and are committed to cultivating an environment where all voices are heard, respected, and valued. We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Beyond compliance, we strive to create a supportive and growth-oriented workplace for everyone. If you share our passion and connection to this mission, we welcome you to apply and join us in building a vibrant and inclusive team at TP-Link Systems Inc.

Please, no third-party agency inquiries, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorships at this time.