# Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Architect > YesAstrology is hiring a Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Architect to lead the scalability, reliability and security of a platform serving millions of monthly users across 170+ computational tools. ## Job Opening Details - Job Title: Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Architect - Department: Core Infrastructure & Platform - Employment Type: full_time - Work Mode: remote - Location: Remote (worldwide) - Date Posted: 2026-10-20T09:25:03.390026+00:00 - Date Modified: 2026-10-20T10:14:53.723505+00:00 - Reading Time: 1 min - Word Count: 202 ## Related links - [Position Page](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career/senior-cloud-systems-architect) - [Careers Hub](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career) - [Canonical URL](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career/senior-cloud-systems-architect) - [Page LLMS URL](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career/senior-cloud-systems-architect/llms.txt) ## Responsibilities - Duty 1: Architect, scale, and maintain high-availability cloud infrastructure across edge networks, serverless functions, and containerized services - Duty 2: Optimize PostgreSQL / Supabase database schemas, connection pooling, indexing strategies, read replicas, and query performance - Duty 3: Design low-latency caching tiers (Redis / Cloudflare Workers KV / Edge caches) to accelerate computational tools and dynamic page rendering - Duty 4: Implement robust observability, distributed tracing, telemetry monitoring, and automated incident alerting (OpenTelemetry, Datadog/Grafana) - Duty 5: Lead platform security architectures, DDoS mitigation, rate-limiting frameworks, and least-privilege cloud IAM governance ## Requirements - Requirement 1: 5+ years of experience architecting and operating high-traffic cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or SaaS backend platforms - Requirement 2: Deep mastery of PostgreSQL (query execution plans, indexing strategies, connection pooling, and multi-tenant isolation) - Requirement 3: Extensive experience with modern cloud ecosystems (AWS / GCP / Cloudflare / Supabase), edge computing, and infrastructure as code - Requirement 4: Strong background in low-latency API design, caching architectures, microservice decoupling, and asynchronous queue workers - Requirement 5: Demonstrated leadership in site reliability engineering (SRE), high-availability design, and disaster recovery planning ## Explore more - [All Career Openings](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career): Explore all open roles at YesAstrology. - [Senior Astrologer and Content Strategist](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career/senior-astrologer-content-strategist): full_time - remote - Remote (worldwide) - [Social Media Specialist](https://www.yesastrology.com/en/career/social-media-specialist): full_time - remote - Remote (worldwide)