Senior Software Architect

Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading provider of meetings, events, and hospitality technology with over 5,500 employees and 30,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, Cvent offers a comprehensive event management platform and software solutions for hotels and venues. Our technology connects millions of people at events globally, and our culture encourages entrepreneurial thinking and collaborative innovation.

Responsibilities

• Shape and lead a company-wide engineering guild focused on secure-by-default practices, modern SDLC patterns, and architectural consistency across Cvent’s SaaS platforms.
• Design and build developer-centric frameworks, libraries, and automation that improve system reliability, maintainability, and security without slowing delivery.
• Partners with product, platform, and cloud engineering teams to evolve architecture standards, ensuring distributed systems are scalable, observable, and resilient.
• Lead design reviews and provide architectural guidance across services, APIs, storage systems, and cloud infrastructure, helping teams make high-quality technical decisions.
• Introduce modern engineering patterns and tooling, including AI-assisted static analysis, automated detection systems, and secure-by-default scaffolding.
• Collaborate with external partners and vendors to evaluate new technologies and integrate capabilities into platform workflows.
• Mentor engineers and influence engineering culture, promoting craftsmanship, simplicity, and scalable design across the stack.
• Help guide long-term architectural strategy, adapting secure development practices to new technologies and emerging patterns (e.g., AI systems, microservices evolution, event-driven architectures).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience building and architecting distributed systems for enterprise or large-scale SaaS platforms.
• Strong hands-on coding experience with Java, TypeScript, cloud-native services, and infrastructure-as-code (CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.).
• Deep understanding of system design, data structures, algorithms, networking, caching, and persistence technologies.
• Experience designing and implementing automation in CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to modernize engineering practices across multiple teams through frameworks, tooling, and shared architectural patterns.
• Familiarity with foundational security engineering principles—secure coding, service hardening, identity and access models, threat considerations—even if not in a security-only role.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and leadership.
• A track record of solving complex problems, driving change, and mentoring engineers through architectural decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience improving security posture in a large-scale distributed SaaS environment.
• Hands-on knowledge of AWS architecture (IAM, KMS, networking, load balancing, etc.).
• Understanding of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) and how engineering teams build systems that meet those requirements.
• Experience with threat modeling, design reviews, and platform-level security patterns.
• Experience making long-term architectural decisions (4-10 years) aligned with platform and business strategy.
• Experience evaluating technologies, running POCs, or leading due diligence during acquisitions.
• Experience presenting technical topics to engineering organizations or external audiences.