Product / Platform Architect

Softility; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Softility Inc. seeks a Product/Platform Architect with 10+ years of hands-on architectural ownership for an enterprise operations platform.

You will oversee distributed services, agentic workflows, knowledge systems, integrations, and customer-hosted Kubernetes deployments across cloud and restricted environments. You will drive platform architecture, deployment security, resilience, and governance while collaborating with product teams on technical feasibility and sequencing.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building production software with architecture ownership.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, containers, cloud networking, and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of LLM application architecture, tool calling, agent workflows, context retrieval, and model abstraction.
• Security, authentication, authorization, RBAC, secret management, auditability, and observability."
• Proven ability to evolve legacy platforms and inspect, prototype, and review production code.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Own service boundaries, APIs, data services, and patterns for agent orchestration, knowledge graphs, and integrations.
• Deployment & Security: Define standards for deployability across cloud/ on-prem, RBAC, auditability, and secrets management.
• Resilience & Governance: Set standards for retries, idempotency, state management, failure recovery, observability, and abstractions.
• Technical Leadership: Review designs, address architectural debt, and collaborate with product teams on feasibility.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Event-driven

Security RBAC

Hands-on coding

Education

BE/BTech in CS

MTech in CS

Tools

Graph databases

Job description

Role Overview

We are looking for a Product / Platform Architect with 10+ years of experience to own the hands‑on technical architecture of an enterprise operations platform. You will oversee distributed services, agentic workflows, knowledge systems, integrations, and customer‑hosted Kubernetes deployments across cloud and restricted environments.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture: Own service boundaries, APIs, data services, and architectural patterns for agent orchestration, knowledge graphs, and integrations.
• Deployment & Security: Ensure platform deployability across cloud VPCs and on-premises environments, defining standards for security, RBAC, auditability, and secrets management.
• Resilience & Governance: Establish design standards for retries, idempotency, state management, failure recovery, observability, and LLM/vendor abstractions.
• Technical Leadership: Review major designs and critical code, identify and resolve architectural debt, and collaborate with product teams on technical feasibility and sequencing

Required Technical & Professional Skills

• Experience: 10+ years building production software with demonstrated architecture ownership for enterprise‑grade distributed systems.
• Distributed Systems & Kubernetes: Deep knowledge of event‑driven/asynchronous architectures, service boundaries, containers, cloud networking, and Kubernetes.
• AI & Agentic Systems: Working understanding of LLM application architecture, tool calling, agent workflows, context retrieval, model abstraction, and human‑in‑the‑loop execution.
• Security & Observability: Strong grasp of authentication, authorization, RBAC, secret management, auditability, and production observability.
• System Evolution & Hands‑On Coding: Proven ability to evolve existing legacy platforms and sufficient coding ability to inspect, prototype, debug, and review production code

Preferred Technical Skills

• Practical SRE, DevOps, infrastructure, or incident‑management experience.
• Hands‑on experience with knowledge graphs, graph databases, or AI/agentic systems in production.
• Direct experience delivering and supporting customer‑hosted enterprise software

Education

• UG: Any Graduate
• PG: MCA in Any Specialization, M.Tech in Any Specialization, MS/M.Sc(Science) in Any Specialization, Any Postgraduate