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CSP (Coupa Supplier Platform) serves millions of supplier companies-it's where they find work, receive orders, issue invoices, and get paid. The platform started as a Rails monolith. It works, but it needs to evolve. More traffic, more features, multi-cloud deployment, higher availability requirements.\nYou'll report to the VP of Engineering. CSP operates as a nimble team outside the larger engineering org, moving fast and pioneering approaches that demonstrate what's possible. You'll work with Ruby on Rails, Golang, Java-and introduce whatever else the architecture needs.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead the architectural evolution. Traffic is growing, functionality is expanding, robustness matters more than ever. You'll define what changes, in what order, and why.\nSet the patterns: API design, microservice boundaries, deployment pipelines, monitoring, reliability. Make them real, not theoretical.\nMentor engineers. Guide decisions. Review architecture and code. 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