Cloud Platform Architect
Taulia
Taulia's Commitment:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
It is our duty to create and advance a diverse and inclusive company where all Taulians feel they are celebrated. All individuals are welcomed, free to express themselves and rewarded for showing up as authentically every day. By hiring women, people of color, individuals with disabilities, veterans, people of all sexual orientations and from underrepresented and marginalized communities, Taulia will revolutionize fintech.
About the Job
Taulia is seeking a passionate, innovative, and hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to join our Cloud Platform Architecture team. In this senior role, you will influence the technical direction of our global platform, mentor engineering talent, and collaborate across teams to accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and unlock platform-wide scale.
Responsibilities
• Partner with engineering teams to understand service needs and collaboratively design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient platform solutions.
• Evaluate, recommend, and responsibly integrate AI-enhanced tooling into platform engineering workflows to improve efficiency, delivery quality, and operational intelligence.
• Lead efforts with service owners to establish SLOs, define meaningful SLIs, and ensure systems consistently meet or exceed SLAs.
• Champion and enforce security best practices across infrastructure, services, and operational workflows.
• Reduce operational toil and drive a high degree of automation through Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps-based delivery patterns.
• Develop a deep understanding of Taulia-SAP products and platform dependencies to ensure rapid and effective incident response.
• Define, document, and advocate for CI/CD standards, governance models, and platform-wide best practices that support modern, scalable, and resilient delivery of cloud-based solutions.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience required
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10+ years operating or architecting enterprise SaaS systems in cloud environments.
- Awareness of AI-driven engineering and operational capabilities, including opportunities to leverage large language models (LLMs), automation, and intelligent tooling to improve developer productivity, reliability, and incident response.
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Expert-level experience designing, deploying, and scaling container-based microservices platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, Docker, service mesh, observability, automated deployments).
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Strong foundational knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, networking, and security protocols (HTTPS, TCP/IP, TLS/PKI, DNS, SMTP, SSH, NTP, etc.).
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7+ years hands-on with public cloud platforms and 3+ years focused on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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High proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash and/or Python.
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Experience with modern code workflows, including branching strategies, release processes, and automated quality gates.
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Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required; Helm and Ansible strongly preferred).
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5+ years building and operating observability platforms, including metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, etc.).
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Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and/or ArgoCD.
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Experience participating in 24/7 operations, incident response, developing runbooks, and producing high-quality platform documentation.
Preferred Skills:
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Expert-level CI/CD and software delivery architecture — able to design scalable, secure, and resilient deployment pipelines, establish governance and quality gates, implement modern release strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags), integrate security and observability across the SDLC, and mature GitOps delivery patterns like Argo CD with policy-driven automation.
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Experience administering or designing data platforms using relational and/or NoSQL technologies (MySQL, Cassandra, Cloud SQL, DynamoDB, etc.).
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Experience working with messaging, streaming, or event-driven platforms (Kafka, ActiveMQ, Pub/Sub, SQS, etc.).
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Experience architecting or operating CDN, WAF, or edge security solutions (Cloudflare, Akamai, CloudFront, GCP Cloud CDN).
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Experience driving platform documentation, standards adoption, design reviews, and engineering enablement.
About Taulia
Taulia is a fintech company that is part of the SAP group. More than 2 million businesses in over 150 countries collaborate on our network. Our customers include Airbus, AstraZeneca, and Nissan. We help them and their suppliers access cash when and where they need it most. Some of our customers have improved their working capital by more than $1 billion while making their supply chains more resilient and sustainable. For more information, please visit www.taulia.com. Compensation is based on a variety of factors including (but not limited to): skills, depth of work experience, certifications, geography, etc. Total compensation for this role includes a generous benefits program, RSU incentive plan and annual performance bonus. Additionally, compensation is reviewed annually and career pathing opportunities are available for continued development.
AI Statement
At Taulia, we are embracing Artificial Intelligence to revolutionize our industry and empower our team. We believe AI is a fundamental tool for innovation, efficiency, and creative problem-solving. We are looking for forward-thinking individuals who share our excitement for the future and are eager to learn, experiment, and grow with us in an AI-driven landscape. If you have a curious, adaptive, and collaborative mindset, you will thrive here.
Benefits:
Flexible work schedule
Remote-friendly environment
Comprehensive Insurance Coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
Comprehensive PTO Structure (PTO, Sick Leave, Bereavement)
Global Parental Leave
Company issued equipment (Laptop, monitor, etc.)
401k with match
Career Development/Pathing
EAP Program/Mental Health Advocacy
Supportive Work Culture
Taulia is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria above but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone excited to join the team.