Senior Staff Platform Architect

We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.

The Role:

Aiven is re-establishing a dedicated Architecture function to own the hardest, longest-horizon technical decisions across our platform — the cross-domain problems that no single service team is positioned to solve alone. This role is the senior technical anchor of that function, driving our 10x scaling initiative and the broader coordination of complex technical (r)evolution across service domains.

This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a management position. We're looking for someone who combines architectural breadth with genuine hands-on technical depth: someone who can set direction for the organization and then personally be part of the hardest engineering work required to prove it out.

What You'll Do:

• Set technical direction for cross-domain architecture initiatives that no single service team owns, particularly the "10x scaling" effort and related long-horizon platform decisions.
• Design and drive the mo