Staff SaaS Platform Architect

Arlo • Milpitas, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Arlo, we're passionate about creating innovative and reliable solutions that help people protect what matters most to them. Our team is dedicated to delivering products that exceed our customers' expectations, while always pushing the boundaries of what's possible in the world of protection technology. We believe that everyone deserves to feel safe and secure, whether they're at home or away, and we're committed to providing our customers with the peace of mind they need to live their lives without worry. Arlo’s deep expertise in AI- and CV-powered analytics, cloud services, user experience, product design, and innovative wireless and RF connectivity enables the delivery of a seamless, smart security experience for Arlo users that is easy to set up and interact with every day. Staff SaaS Platform Architect Location: Milpitas, CA (hybrid) We are looking for an experienced technical architect to join our Partner Platform team. The Arlo Partner Platform is the foundation that enables strategic B2B integrations across Arlo’s connected device ecosystem. It provides partner-facing APIs, event systems, device management capabilities, and integration tooling that allow third-party platforms, service providers, and enterprise customers to securely interact with Arlo devices and cloud services. In this role, you will lead the technical direction of the Arlo Partner Platform as we expand our ecosystem into new use cases, integrations & partnerships .

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of the architecture of large-scale, distributed SaaS systems.
• Strong experience with designing RESTful APIs and API lifecycles including versioning, compatibility & documentation.
• OpenAPI experience a plus.
• Experience with microservice architecture in cloud-native environments.
• Enterprise AWS experience preferred.
• Experience with consumer IoT devices and/or mobile application development highly desired but not .
• Strong written & verbal communication skills with experience presenting to internal and external stakeholders, including executive briefs.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Java or similar language.
• Excellent working knowledge of Linux.
• Experience with AI-driven development workflows and tools (Cursor, ClaudeCode , etc.).
• Experience with agentic systems a plus.
• Experience with audio/video streaming & standards a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural direction of the Arlo Partner Platform through proven experience architecting enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Own the API and event interfaces that our partners rely on, maintaining compliance to open standards ( OpenAPI , REST, etc.) while ensuring extensibility, maintainability and ease of use.
• Drive our objective of AI first development by integrating agentic workflows into our next generation of applications & services.
• Help to define our microservice architecture supporting a global-scale, high availability, multi-cloud architecture that balances performance & cost.
• Guide the teams in a developer-centric, platform first mindset with a focus on good API practices, ease of integration, documentation, observability & reliability.
• Use strong written & verbal communication skills to bridge product & engineering objectives .
• Own the high-level technical architecture documents.
• Regularly present on progress & plans to senior leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed