.Say hello to possibilities.
It's not every day that you consider starting a new career.
We're RingCentral, and we're happy that someone as talented as you is considering this role.
First, a little about us, we're the $2 billion global leader in cloud-based communications and collaboration software.
We are fundamentally changing the nature of human interaction—giving people the freedom to connect powerfully and personally from anywhere, at any time, on any device.
This is where you and your skills come in.
We're currently looking for:Architect Are you a technical expert ready to lead engineering initiatives and transform business requirements into system design?
We're looking for a Platform Architect to join our team.
In the Platform team, we create high-load services that provide public REST APIs to our clients, addressing cross-cutting concerns in a geo-distributed environment.
Our APIs enable functionalities such as call and video conference management, sending text messages, faxes, SMS, and MMS, configuring user settings, and accessing data.While many of these APIs are developed by our colleagues in other teams, we simplify their work and ensure consistent access through our development of the API Gateway, service discovery, API authorization, and throttling, statistics gathering, push notification delivery channels, and more.
At RingCentral, we're seeking a seasoned professional to lead these efforts and drive the evolution of our platform architecture.
If you're passionate about building robust, scalable systems, we want to hear from you!Key Responsibilities: Explore and implement new solutions or improve existing ones for the architecture of our Unified Communications platform; Design architecturefor highly available services, ensuring fault tolerance and reliability; Participate in technical discussions with other architects and engineers, providing consultation to development and operations teams; Analyze and evaluate alternative solutions, making informed decisions; Work on projects atvarious stages, providing support for projects in production and proactively addressing issues; Justify the choice of specific technologies, demonstrating their benefits; Research and present new technologies and solutions to the team; Document new and existing solutions, ensuring clear and thorough documentation.Qualifications & Skills: Experience with building and maintaining fault-tolerant systems; Proven ability to document technical solutions clearly and effectively; Strong understanding of microservices architecture principles and design patterns; Experience implementing transitioning to new solutions without causing downtime; Solid understandingof networking concepts and inter-service communication methods (e.G., L4/L7 load balancing, synchronous/asynchronous communication, message queues, etc.
); Familiarity with network protocols, including IPv4/IPv6, TCP/UDP, DNS, HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket; Knowledge of virtualization (e.G