Architect - Backend Engineering - US - Remote

As an Architect in our Architecture team you will partner with engineering teams and product management to execute on our vision to become the leading unified solution for video streaming by strengthening architecture, developing innovative proofs-of-concept and prototypes, defining and implementing reliable solution architectures, establishing and promoting technology standards and leading adoption of architecture best practices. The purpose of this role will be to provide technical leadership in the design, development and operations of key products and services that make up Brightcove's world class video platform. This individual will also help teams adopt and effectively utilize modern best practices for agile/evolutionary architecture, site reliability engineering, and devops.  The successful candidate will have expertise in disciplines such as, native cloud (SaaS) application development, systems architecture, data, testing, SRE/devops and security.

Job Responsibilities 

• Serve as technical lead on demanding, cross-functional projects
• Ensure quality and reliability of system architectures and design
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Fully and completely understand system inter dependencies, non-functional requirements, and limitations
• Effectively deploy expert knowledge to improve system performance, scalability, security, and reliability
• Actively mentor individuals and the community on advanced technical issues as well as reliability and architecture best practices
• Drive modern system design principles
• Apply cloud-native architecture, application and service scaling, SRE, and DevOps principles and practices to existing and new service designs
• Build prototypes and POCs to validate architecture

Qualifications/Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience required. Master's degree is a plus. 
• 10+ years of experience as an architect and engineering leader in a B2B, SaaS environment
• Extensive knowledge of agile and evolutionary architecture methodologies, continuous integration/delivery, automated end-to-end testing, SRE and DevOps practices and …