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Backed by a $375M Series B, we're now building the agents that turn detection into action - for individuals, families, and the companies that want to protect their people.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Principal Software Architect, to own end-to-end platform architecture for cloud-native services and public APIs; provide reference designs and guardrails.\nWhat will you do?\nSet reliability and performance standards; define SLOs and error budgets; run incident postmortems with action items; partner with SRE to meet SLOs.\n\nPlan and execute scale initiatives to support 10× user and traffic growth; drive capacity, cost, and resilience roadmaps.\n\nLead cross-functional delivery with Product and SRE; decompose initiatives into milestones and technical workplans.\n\nChair design and architecture reviews; publish and enforce engineering standards across security, CI/CD, testing, and observability.\n\nEvaluate and introduce platforms, patterns, and tooling; run proofs-of-concept and phased rollouts.\n\nLead architecture for core platform capabilities and future domains as assigned.\n\nDefine technical approach and non-functional requirements; review designs and ensure implementation meets performance, security, and cost targets.\n\nDefine cloud reference stacks; require IaC, container orchestration, and observability baselines; guide implementation with platform teams.\n\nProvide technical mentorship to senior engineers; codify best practices.\n\nRequirements\nThis position requires a Master’s degree (or equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Software Engineer or a similar position responsible for software or systems engineering.\n\nAlternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent foreign degree) in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Software Engineer or a similar position responsible for software or systems engineering.\n\nExperience, which may have been gained concurrently with primary requirement above must include two (2) years of experience with:\nDesigning distributed or cloud-native systems and public APIs.\n\nWorking with both relational and NoSQL databases.\n\nCI/CD and automated testing practices.\n\nTools:\nAt least one language including Python/Java/Go or equivalent\n\nAt least one web framework including Django/FastAPI/NestJS or equivalent\n\nCloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) and IaC\n\nContainers and observability\n\nSecurity-by-design practices for cloud applications\n\nQualified applicants will also have experience providing technical leadership or mentoring.\n\nPosition requires approximately 10% domestic travel\n\nSalary is $245,000-275,000 per year for 40-hour work week\n\nWhat we offer\nCloaked is a well-funded Series B startup based out of NYC.\nAlthough we are a distributed team, the NYC team operates with a hybrid model. We have two floors of our building, with two state of the art kitchens packed with drinks, snacks and everything else you'd need to get through the day.\nThe Cloaked team has diverse interests and so we frequently embark on team outings and go out for socials!\nCompensation and Benefits\nWe offer above market rate pay and equity based off of the market's best commercially available data. Your compensation will be a combination of salary, bonus and equity.\nFor full-time US employees, we offer a comprehensive benefits package: medical, dental and vision with Cloaked covering the majority of employee premiums, company-paid basic life, and a 401(k) with company match.\nWe offer flexible work arrangements and the ability to work remotely as needed. Cloaked provides a home office stipend in addition to a new company laptop (and other tech depending on the role).\nPerks\nCompetitive PTO: PTO, floating holidays and sick days - and we push people to actually use them. 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