Principal Architect

Job Opportunity We are looking for a Principal Architect to lead architectural development for Ekahau while driving technical alignment and engineering standards across the broader Ookla team. You will define our multi-year technical roadmap, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure and future-proof. You will act as a key advisor to senior leadership and you will be bridging the gap between business strategy and technical execution. Ekahau is part of Ookla 's connectivity intelligence portfolio, and this role spans architecture across three complementary product lines: Ekahau, the industry-standard toolkit network engineers use to design, survey, and troubleshoot enterprise Wi-Fi deployments; Speedtest Pulse, which delivers continuous, real-time network performance monitoring intelligence to ISPs and network operators; and Speedtest Certified, the independent certification program that benchmarks and validates network and device performance against Ookla 's connectivity standards. Together, these products span desktop, mobile, and cloud, and process performance data at global scale, giving you the opportunity to shape architecture decisions that directly influence how networks and devices are designed, monitored, and certified worldwide. We are looking for world class talent and the applicants should have hands-on skills and attitude, a strong technical background in software and data architectures, and excellent communication skills. Key Responsibilities Defining and evolvi