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Principal Architect-Platform

Reltio · United states · On-site

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About Reltio

Unify siloed data into trusted 360 views with Reltio. Power AI, improve operations, and drive growth with real-time context intelligence. Backed by NEA and Sapphire.

About the role

Reltio is scaling a cloud-native, multi-tenant data platform used by global enterprises. We need a Principal Architect to set the end-to-end architecture vision, de-risk the roadmap, and turn strategy into secure, reliable, cost-efficient systems—while upleveling the engineering organization. Set the vision: Author and socialize the product/platform architecture strategy; maintain ADRs and tech radars.

What they're looking for

  • 20+ years in product/platform architecture for large-scale, cloud-native SaaS, recent Principal/Distinguished Architect scope leading end-to-end product decisions and migrations across multi-cloud
  • Cloud & Kubernetes depth: EKS/AKS/GKE, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), platform control planes, operators/CRDs. Able to define golden paths/paved roads for teams
  • Data platform & streaming expertise: Kafka/Flink/Spark, columnar/OLAP (Druid, ClickHouse), NoSQL (Cassandra), search (Elasticsearch/Opensearch), real-time + batch patterns
  • Microservices & integration at enterprise scale: API gateways, event-driven design, SOA/EAI (Apache Camel/Mule/WSO2/JBoss Fuse)
  • AI/ML & Agentic AI in production: ML pipelines (MLflow/Kubeflow/Airflow) and LLM/agent frameworks (OpenAI APIs, LLaMA, LangChain/LangGraph, tool-use, memory, evals)
  • Security, privacy, and compliance by design: threat modeling, data classification, encryption/keys, and EU GDPR awareness through real product work
More about this role

Function: Platform & Product Architecture (Cloud-Native Data/SaaS)

At Reltio®, an SAP Company, we believe data should fuel your success in the enterprise AI era. Our Context Intelligence Platform turns fragmented data into a trusted, connected context so AI agents and systems can act with expert-level judgement at enterprise scale. Reltio’s cloud-native SaaS platform harmonizes, unifies, and governs data across sources and formats—including unstructured data—in real time, turning them into data assets that can be mobilized in milliseconds to any application, user, or AI agent. Trusted by more than 200 of the world’s largest brands across industries such as life sciences, financial services, healthcare, and technology, we fuel frictionless operations and help enterprises accelerate innovation and reduce risk.

At Reltio, our values guide everything we do. With an unyielding commitment to prioritizing our “Customer First”, we strive to ensure their success. We embrace our differences and are “Better Together” as One Reltio. We are always looking to “Simplify and Share” our knowledge when we collaborate to remove obstacles for each other. We hold ourselves accountable for our actions...

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