Senior Technical Architect
Status: Open
- Pay
- $60–$130/hr
- Location
- Remote
- Employment type
- Contractor
- Openings
- 5
- Start
- We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts ready to jump in right away. If selected, we expect you to start your first tasks within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
- Posted
- 2026-07-21
About this opportunity
Required skills
- Cloud Benchmark Task Authoring
- Cloud and Distributed Systems Architecture
- Production Infrastructure Ownership
What you'll do
- Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
- Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
- Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
- Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
- Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.
Requirements
- Senior-level technical architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios.
- Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
- Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
- Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, or multi-cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building internal developer platforms, edge infrastructure, or shared platform services.
- Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, local cloud emulators, or resilience testing.
- Experience creating technical evaluations, automated grading systems, or AI environments is helpful but not required.