Job description
About Us:
At Sauce Labs, we empower the world’s top enterprises - like Walmart, Bank of America, and Indeed - to deliver quality web and mobile applications at speed. Our industry-leading platform ensures continuous quality across the SDLC, using AI-powered analytics to identify key quality signals from development through production. With our unified solution, teams can release and innovate with confidence, knowing their apps will always look, function, and perform exactly as they should. Backed by TPG and Riverwood Capital, we are shaping the future of digital confidence - join us!
The Role:
Sauce Labs is seeking an Architect to lead the design, implementation, and management of our mobile device cloud infrastructure and platform. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring that our mobile device cloud offering is scalable, secure, and highly available while advising on evolving technologies to meet our customer needs.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and document scalable system components and subsystems.
- Partner with operations, network engineering, and security teams on data center planning, ensuring the implementation of best practices across both on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate closely with product management to understand business requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.
- Promote and help define technical standards, best practices, and patterns across engineering teams.
- Clearly articulate architectural decisions to developers and other stakeholders.
- Lead development efforts for features that enhance workflows and productivity for both internal teams and our customers.
- Conduct code reviews and offer architectural guidance to development teams.
- Drive continuous improvements in system performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Manage and identify technical dependencies between teams and systems.
- Ensure on-time project delivery through cross-functional collaboration and consistent execution of technical strategies.
- Support reverse engineering, automated mobile testing, and app release distribution.
Required Skills:
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development and architecture of production-grade systems.
Technical Skills:
Proficient in modern programing languages (e.g., Go, Java, Python, C#).
3+ years of experience designing and deploying applications on Kubernetes
Strong background in cloud architecture (GCP and AWS preferred; Azure acceptable).
Strong knowledge of application data modeling and database design, including document-centric databases (e.g., MongoDB).
Proficiency in mobile application development
Experience with identity and access management (IAM) and role-based access control (RBAC) within enterprise systems.
Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and API design best practices.
Experience with SaaS platforms, especially in QA testing, developer tools, or enterprise applications.
Process & Collaboration
- Experience working in Agile development environments with CI/CD and DevOps practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across engineering and product teams.
- Experience contributing to system modernization, cloud migration, or platform refactoring projects.
- Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities are a plus.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time to support in-person collaboration with your team or customers, as needed on-site or within the region
This Saucer role is based in our Berlin, Germany office. We are a hybrid workplace that recognizes the importance of flexibility while valuing in-person collaboration and relationship building. As a result, Saucers located near an office location must be able and willing to come into the office.
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Sauce Labs is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity/expression/status, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
Security responsibilities at Sauce
At Sauce, we will commit to supporting the health and safety of employees and properties, partnering with internal stakeholders to learn and act on ever-evolving security protocols and procedures. You’ll be expected to fully comply with all policies and procedures related to security at the department and org wide level and exercise a ‘security first’ approach to how we design, build & run our products and services.
