Staff SaaS Platform Architect
About Arlo
At Arlo, we're passionate about creating innovative and reliable solutions that help people protect what matters most to them. Our team is dedicated to delivering products that exceed our customers' expectations, while always pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of protection technology. We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe and secure, whether they're at home or away, and we're committed to providing our customers with the peace of mind they need to live their lives without worry.
Staff SaaS Platform Architect
Location: Milpitas, CA (hybrid)
- Lead the technical direction of the Arlo Partner Platform as we expand our ecosystem into new use cases, integrations & partnerships.
- Led the architectural direction of the Arlo Partner Platform through proven experience architecting enterprise SaaS platforms.
- Maintain compliance to open standards (OpenAPI, REST, etc.) while ensuring extensibility, maintainability and ease of use for the API and event interfaces that our partners rely on.
- Drive our objective of AI first development by integrating agentic workflows into our next generation of applications & services.
- Help to define our microservice architecture supporting a global-scale, high availability, multi-cloud architecture that balances performance & cost.
- Guide the teams in a developer-centric, platform first mindset with a focus on good API practices, ease of integration, documentation, observability & reliability.
- Use strong written & verbal communication skills to bridge product & engineering objectives.
- Own the high-level technical architecture documents.
- Regularly present on progress & plans to senior leadership.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of the architecture of large-scale, distributed SaaS systems.
- Strong experience with designing RESTful APIs and API lifecycles including versioning, compatibility & documentation.
- OpenAPI experience a plus.
- Experience with microservice architecture in cloud-native environments.
- Enterprise AWS experience preferred.
- Experience with consumer IoT devices and/or mobile application development highly desired but not required.
- Strong written & verbal communication skills with experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders, including executive briefs.
Additional Strengths
- Experience with Java or similar language.
- Excellent working knowledge of Linux.
- Experience with AI-driven development workflows and tools (Cursor, ClaudeCode, etc.).
- Experience with agentic systems a plus.
- Experience with audio/video streaming & standards a plus.
Pay Range
The pay range for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries at commencement of employment and is expected to be between USD$155,000-225,000/year. However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including role, job-related knowledge, skills, relevant education and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including bonus, equity, and a full range of benefits.