Senior Data Platform Architect — Remote

Whirl AI, Inc.; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 704,000 - 1,016,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employer-paid health plan

Job summary

Whirl AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff or Principal IC to own our data backbone powering AI agents. You’ll own end-to-end data flow from ingestion to surfaced insights, with platform responsibilities spanning queryability, reliability, and governance.

This role is remote-eligible (USA only) with SF offices for local candidates. You’ll define standards for performance and security, shape how agents use customer data, and mentor engineers while influencing across the org.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in industry with lead/architect role in large-scale integrations or data-intensive products.
• Hands-on experience building agent/action workflows and automation.
• Proven record of setting long-term technical direction for platforms you influenced over time.
• Experience with enterprise security, access control, compliance and data governance.
• Ability to influence across Engineering, Product and customers without formal authority.
• Strong viewpoint on data modeling, infrastructure and API design, backed by previous systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the full vertical from API ingestion to agentic data discovery and workflows.
• Define and drive standards for performance, reliability, security and data governance.
• Shape how agents find, understand and act on customer data; design the data layer.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence architecture decisions across teams.
• Serve as senior technical voice with customers and Product, translating requirements into platform strategy.
• Work autonomously on open-ended problems and bring clarity to move work forward.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data-intensive products

APIs & data modeling

Technical leadership

Security & governance

Cross-team influence

Data architecture

Tools

MCP

IPaaS

Workflow automation

Job description

Whirl AI, Inc. is seeking a Staff or Principal IC to own our data backbone powering AI agents. You’ll own end-to-end data flow from ingestion to surfaced insights, with platform responsibilities spanning queryability, reliability, and governance.

This role is remote-eligible (USA only) with SF offices for local candidates. You’ll define standards for performance and security, shape how agents use customer data, and mentor engineers while influencing across the org.