Cloud Architect

AppsFlyer is known for its massive production infrastructure. In any given second, our servers produce valuable insights from millions of incoming events, crunching petabytes of data, serving requests, and communicating on a truly global and massive scale. Our engineering teams deploy code fast and often, with a culture that prioritizes rapid iteration and stability.

Our group designs, builds, and operates the resilient, high-performance infrastructure and developer experience layer that enables all this and more.

What You'll Do

As a Cloud Architect, you will serve as a technical focal point, driving strategic architectural decisions that shape the future of our globally distributed platform.

• Platform & Scale Leadership: Lead the architectural efforts to modernize and significantly scale the company’s infrastructure across multiple geographies and heterogeneous cloud providers.
• Cross-Organizational Influence: Work with other groups in the organization to deeply understand their needs and translate them into concrete, production-ready capabilities and platform offerings.
• Multi-Cloud Data Strategy: Define and champion a comprehensive, petabyte-scale multi-cloud data strategy, ensuring optimal data governance, security, and cost-efficient flow for streaming ingestion, data lakes, and advanced analytics workloads across environments.
• Microservices Design & Resilience: Provide high-level architectural oversight for the multi-cloud design patterns of our microservices, focusing on cross-cloud resilience, global traffic management, data locality, and failure domain isolation.
• AI Transformation Leadership: Lead the AI transformation initiatives aimed at radically enhancing the developer experience, introducing intelligent automation, and leveraging generative AI models to accelerate software delivery, testing, and operational efficiency.
• Strategic Alignment: Foster cross-group alignment and build consensus among engineering leaders and business stakeholders for strategic platform projects, translating complex technical roadmap items into clear, measurable business outcomes.
• Architecture Definition: Help define the technical vision, architecture, and long-term directions of the Cloud Platform group and the wider R&D organization.
• Engineering Excellence: Be a champion for engineering excellence, setting high standards, mentoring engineers across the group to foster solid architectural principles, and supporting their professional growth.
• Architect Forum Participation: Be a key member of the company’s architect forum, participate in complex technical discussions, and facilitate effective, org-wide decision-making processes.
  
  

What You Have

• 10+ years of software development and platform engineering experience, with at least 5 years in technical leadership positions within a large-scale SaaS or distributed systems environment.
• Expert-level proficiency in AWS Cloud, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating scalable, global, high-availability infrastructure.
• Deep Multi-Cloud Expertise: Significant, demonstrable experience in designing and implementing systems that span at least two major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Expert-level knowledge and understanding of Kubernetes internals (operators, controllers, networking, security).
• Data Experience: Proven experience designing and optimizing large-scale data platforms, including streaming architectures (Kafka/Kinesis), data warehousing, and distributed file systems.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and their advanced implementations (e.g., GitOps, progressive delivery, from testing to production).
• A people person, optimistic, and visionary, with a can-do approach and the ability to lead complex and sensitive decision-making processes in an effective manner while creating a positive, collaborative, and pleasant atmosphere.
• Proven experience mentoring and coaching high-potential engineers to develop new skills and grow professionally.
  
  

Bonus Points

• Recommended by an AppsFlyer employee.
  
  

As a global company operating from 20 offices worldwide, we reflect the human mosaic of the diverse and multicultural world in which we live. We ensure equal opportunities for all of our employees and promote the recruitment of diverse talents to our global teams without consideration of race, gender, culture, or sexual orientation. We value and encourage curiosity, diversity, and innovation from all our employees, customers, and partners.

“As a Customer Obsessed company, we must first be Employee Obsessed. We need to make sure that we provide the team with the tools and resources they need to go All-In.” Oren Kaniel, CEO