Senior Architect

Senior Architect (On-Site – Pleasanton, CA)

Company:
Elas

Location:
Pleasanton, CA (On-Site)

About Elas

Elas is building a modern operational intelligence platform that helps organizations understand patterns, trends, and performance across their workforce and systems. We integrate data across environments and surface meaningful insights through a unified, intuitive interface.

We move fast, build pragmatically, and care deeply about clean architecture, security, and scalability.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a
Senior Architect
who can design and
build
scalable, secure systems end-to-end. This is not a purely strategic role — you’ll be deeply embedded with engineering, shaping architecture while actively contributing to implementation.

You’ll own core architectural decisions across infrastructure, backend services, and frontend systems, ensuring Elas scales reliably as we grow.

What You’ll Do

• Design and evolve a
cloud agnostic architecture
(on AWS)

• Lead implementation of
Kubernetes-based infrastructure
(EKS or similar)

• Architect and optimize
CI/CD pipelines
using tools like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions

• Define and enforce
microservices architecture patterns

• Build and review
Golang-based backend services

• Collaborate on and guide
React frontend architecture

• Establish and maintain
secure-by-design systems
(auth, access control, data protection)

• Drive
observability, monitoring, and reliability practices

• Partner with engineering leadership to translate product requirements into scalable systems

• Mentor engineers and elevate overall system design quality

Required Experience

• 7+ years in software engineering, with significant time in architecture roles

• Deep experience with
AWS infrastructure
(VPCs, IAM, EKS, RDS, etc.)

• Strong hands-on expertise in
Kubernetes

• Experience designing and managing
CI/CD pipelines
(ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar)

• Proficiency in
Golang

• Experience with
React
and modern frontend architecture

• Proven experience building
microservices-based systems

• Strong understanding of
application and infrastructure security best practices

• Experience scaling systems in production environments

Nice to Have

• Experience in
B2B SaaS platforms

• Familiarity with
SOC 2 / security compliance frameworks

• Experience with
event-driven architecture
(Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.)

• Background in
observability stacks
(Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

What We’re Looking For

• Someone who
builds, not just designs

• High ownership mindset — you think in systems, not tickets

• Ability to balance
speed vs. long-term architecture

• Strong communicator who can work across product, engineering, and leadership

• Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment

Why Join ElasApp

• Shape the architecture of a growing platform from the ground up

• Work directly with leadership on high-impact decisions

• Small, high-caliber team with real ownership

• Opportunity to define engineering standards and culture