Chief Platform Architect - Industrial AI & Edge

Litmus; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Litmus in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to own the overall technical architecture of our edge-to-cloud industrial AI data platform. You will set the long-term vision, balance speed, scale, and maintainability, and drive cross-team architectural decisions.

You will mentor senior engineers, guide critical system design, and partner with product leadership to shape enterprise-ready solutions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering with an architectural impact.
• Expert-level Go and distributed systems design.
• Mastery of Docker and Kubernetes in production-scale deployments.
• Deep Linux/Unix expertise across OS layers.
• Proven ability to make long-term architectural decisions thoughtfully.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform architecture and long-term vision balancing speed, scale, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural decisions across teams ensuring reliability and velocity.
• Identify systemic engineering problems and lead org-wide solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar.
• Represent architecture in cross-functional discussions with product and leadership.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

Linux/Unix

Communication

Leadership through influence

Cloud-native

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Litmus in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to own the overall technical architecture of our edge-to-cloud industrial AI data platform. You will set the long-term vision, balance speed, scale, and maintainability, and drive cross-team architectural decisions.

You will mentor senior engineers, guide critical system design, and partner with product leadership to shape enterprise-ready solutions.