Staff Software Architect
Location: Chennai, India

As a Staff Software Architect, you will spearhead the design and evolution of cutting-edge enterprise backend services driving Trimble’s digital transformation. This role is designed for a visionary technologist passionate about building highly scalable, cloud-native systems that deliver transformative customer experiences.
Main Responsibilities
Architectural Strategy: Lead the design of complex, multi-region, and highly available distributed systems. Author high-level documentation and standards for [Azure / AWS] component utilization.
Technical Governance: Spearhead Architectural Reviews across various product pods to ensure alignment with global reliability, security, and performance standards.
Platform Evolution: Drive the transition toward [Serverless / Kubernetes / Internal Developer Platforms] to abstract infrastructure complexity and accelerate product development.
Cloud Economics (FinOps): Partner with Finance and Engineering leadership to manage cloud budgets,



implementing automated cost-control measures and attribution models.
Technical Leadership: Foster a culture of excellence and continuous learning. While this is an individual contributor role, you will "manage outcomes" by mentoring senior engineers and influencing cross-functional roadmaps.
Qualifications & Experience
Experience: 9+ years in software engineering or systems architecture, with a minimum of 5 years focused on large-scale cloud environments.
Architectural Track Record: Proven experience architecting at least 3 large enterprise-level implementations or 4–6 major projects in an Agile workplace.
Cloud Expertise: Deep, "under-the-hood" knowledge of cloud primitives (Networking, IAM, Storage, Compute), orchestration (Kubernetes, Nomad), and event-driven patterns (Kafka).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation at enterprise scale (modular design, state management, and CI/CD integration).
Business Acume

📌 Staff Software Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Trimble
📍 Chennai