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About the TeamThe AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact.... ...equally well with hands-on engineers.Bring strong software and cloud architec…
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Cloud Architect jobs in San Francisco, CA
Cloud architects design how an organization's systems run on platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP — balancing reliability, security, and cost, and guiding teams through migrations and growth.
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adoption, and drives durable growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. Cloud partners are central to how customers discover, purchase,... ...segments.Technical fluency sufficient to engage credibly with cloud architects, pr…
$240k - $315k
an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large... ...technical and business stakeholders Experience designing scalable cloud archit…
AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer (ArcGIS/Esri Platform) Location: ~San Francisco, CA~ Duration: 6 months Seeking an experienced AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer to support, automate, and maintain critical geospatial applications and c…
Francisco. The practice has won over 80 international awards and major design competitions. Our diverse and creative team with 380 architects and designers from 35 nationalities has designed and delivered work in 60 citi…
Salesforce Cloud Technical Architect (Consumer Goods) Location This is a hybrid role based in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, New York & San Francisco. About the job you're considering We are seeking a Salesforce Tech…
Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) companies as they scale cloud- native, AI-enabled, and platform-based operating models. Based... ...such as CPA, CISA, CISSP, CISM, AWS Certified Solutions Architect/ Security…
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We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Companies all over the world and across every industry are moving to the cloud, and Okta’s identity-centric zero trust security is a key pillar of that digital tr…
$135k - $150k
sustainable. The Opportunity Perkins Eastman has an exciting opportunity in our San Francisco. We seek a highly motivated Project Architect to with a combination of design talent and technical expertise to collaborativel…
Focus: design large-scale AI compute clusters optimize networking, storage and scheduling Tech: HPC networking Kubernetes GPU scheduling Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. R…
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Are you ready to make an impact? Senior Principal/ Architect (Identity & Security) Overview West Monroe is seeking a Senior Principal... ...design, remediation, and modernization of complex identity and cloud infrastruct…
would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today! Responsibilities: Architect and implement a secure, scalable cloud platform meeting FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 standards. Oversee the…
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What cloud architects earn in San Francisco
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $64–$84 | $133k–$175k |
| Mid level | $84–$111 | $175k–$231k |
| Senior | $108–$148 | $224k–$308k |
Adjusted for the San Francisco market from national ranges.
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What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Deep AWS, Azure, or GCP expertiseArchitecture patterns and tradeoffsNetworking and security designInfrastructure as codeCost modeling and FinOpsMigration planningKubernetes and containersStakeholder communicationWriting architecture documents
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Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Design a highly available architecture for a customer-facing web application.
Ask about requirements and budget first. Cover multi-AZ, load balancing, data replication, and failure modes — and say what you would deliberately not build at this scale.
How would you plan a migration from on-premises to the cloud?
Talk about assessment, choosing rehost versus refactor per workload, sequencing by risk, and running hybrid during the transition. Phased beats big-bang.
A team's cloud costs doubled in a quarter. How do you investigate?
Visibility first — cost explorer, tagging — then the usual suspects: data transfer, oversized instances, forgotten environments. Show you treat cost as an architectural property.
When would you advise against microservices?
Small teams, unclear domain boundaries, or operational immaturity. Arguing against a fashionable pattern with specifics is a strong signal for an architect.
How do you get engineering teams to actually follow your architecture?
Influence over mandate: reference architectures, paved-road templates, and review checkpoints. Acknowledge that unused architecture documents are a failure mode.
How do you design for disaster recovery, and how do you set RTO/RPO?
Explain that RTO/RPO are business decisions with price tags, then map them to backup, pilot-light, or active-active patterns. Mention actually testing the recovery.
Tell me about an architecture decision you got wrong.
Pick a real one, explain the reasoning at the time, and what your process learned from it. Architects who claim a clean record are not believed.
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Resume tips that move the needle
For cloud architects specifically — generic advice costs you here
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Anchor each role in scale and outcomes: workloads migrated, availability achieved, annual spend managed or reduced.
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List current professional-level certifications (AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect); they are near-mandatory screens for this title.
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Show breadth across compute, networking, data, and security — architecture hiring looks for T-shaped depth.
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Include the organizational side: teams guided, architecture reviews run, standards adopted.
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Name a migration or greenfield build you owned end to end; a single deep case study outweighs a list of services.
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Where this role goes
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