Distinguished Architect, Data Technology

BambooHR LLC; Utah; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance

401k plans with up to 6% company match

Generous leave policies including vacation and parental leave

Paid-Paid Vacation bonus

Job summary

BambooHR LLC is seeking a Distinguished Architect to lead the data technology architecture for their product. This role involves defining the architectural vision and ensuring alignment across various domains. The Distinguished Architect will collaborate with engineering and product leadership to facilitate data modernization and reliability while fostering a great developer experience.

The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience with data storage technologies in a cloud-native SaaS environment, proven ownership of data processes, and a strong focus on security. This position offers a hybrid work environment in Utah.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and operating data storage technology at scale in cloud-native SaaS.
• Proven ownership of data movement through developer portals and partner onboarding.
• Deep security & tenancy knowledge including OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC/ABAC, and auditing.
• Experience with tracing/logs/metrics, chaos testing, and DR patterns.
• Measurable impact on developer experience and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Define and steward the architectural vision for data technology.
• Architect and guide the evolution of data storage technology.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to define product strategy.
• Elevate internal developers’ experience with the data platform.
• Ensure reliability, security & compliance by design.

Skills

Data storage technology

Cloud-native SaaS

Security & tenancy

DORA metrics

Architectural clarity

Job description

Please note: This is a Utah-based hybrid position which will require some regular in-office days each week. Additionally, employment with BambooHR is contingent on passing both a background and credit check.

Essential Job Duties

BambooHR is seeking a Distinguished Architect to partner with the VPs of Software Engineering, Software Architects, and Cloud Engineering in leading the Bamboo Product’s Data Technology Architecture. In this role, the Distinguished Architect defines and stewards the architectural vision for our overall Data Technology and is accountable for the cohesive architecture of BambooHR’s product data platform, ensuring alignment and interoperability across domains in collaboration with domain architects and engineering leadership.

• Set data storage vision & reference architectures for a resilient, secure, compliant, multi‑tenant SaaS: identity & permissions, tenancy, configuration, notifications, audit, and compliance guardrails.
• Architect and guide the evolution of our data storage technology: continuity of data, relational databases, replication strategy, caching, graphing, and multi‑tenancy. Work closely with the platform on how these systems support UDM and API platform data innovation.
• Architect and influence data technology modernization: evolve BambooHR’s core data architecture—modernizing legacy systems, enabling scalable cloud‑native patterns, and ensuring the platform is positioned for future innovation and growth.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to define and communicate the product vision and strategy from a data architecture perspective—representing the architectural vision and trade‑offs to the executive leadership team to ensure alignment across business, product, and technology.
• Elevate how internal developers build on top of the data platform: evolve the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to empower teams with standardized, self‑service developer workflows, standard approaches, and self‑service tooling that accelerate delivery and improve DORA metrics and time‑to‑first‑service.
• Provide architectural guidance for Data & AI platform patterns: guide data modeling, streaming, analytics, AI/agent platform patterns, and evaluation/observability.
• Ensure reliability, security & compliance by design: public SLOs and error budgets, progressive delivery (canaries), chaos testing, multi‑region DR; authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML; RBAC/ABAC), secure webhooks, audit logging; SOC 2/ISO 27001/GDPR baked into designs and pipelines.
• Guide growth, monetization & FinOps enablement: usage metering, entitlements, pricing tiers, quotas/rate limits; embed unit‑economics telemetry (cost per call/event/tenant) to guide caching, capacity, storage tiers, and retention policies.
• Multiply architectural impact: run ADR/RFC processes, lead design reviews & guilds, mentor Staff/Principal engineers, and prototype to de‑risk major bets and migrations.

What You Need to Get the Job Done

• 10+ years designing and operating data storage technology at scale in cloud‑native SaaS (AWS/GCP, MySQL, relational, graph database, NoSQL, caching, event systems, progressive delivery).
• Proven ownership of data movement through developer portals and partner onboarding/marketplaces; shipped versioning/deprecation programs and webhook/event architectures (REST/GraphQL; Kafka/PubSub or equivalents).
• Deep security & tenancy: OAuth2/OIDC, scope design, RBAC/ABAC, multi‑tenant isolation, auditing, privacy‑preserving patterns, and compliance baked into workflows.
• Reliability & observability fluency: tracing/logs/metrics, SLO/error‑budget culture, chaos/DR patterns, secure webhook delivery.
• DevEx & efficiency impact: measurable DORA improvements, faster time‑to‑first‑service, and improved unit economics/FinOps.

What Will Make Us REALLY Love You

• Transformed developer experience—measurably improving DORA metrics and internal satisfaction through intuitive platforms and golden paths.
• Inspired architectural clarity and alignment across teams, helping leadership and engineers alike rally around a cohesive technical vision.
• Cultivated thriving developer ecosystems—both internally and externally—through SDKs, integrations, and marketplaces.
• Deep technical fluency in modern architectural patterns: event‑driven systems, GraphQL federation, and emerging data/AI platforms.
• Multiplier of talent: a coach, mentor, and community‑builder who elevates architecture culture across the organization.
• Known for driving change through influence—able to balance pragmatism with innovation and communicate complex ideas simply.

What You’ll Love About Us

• Great Company Culture recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life
• 401k plans with up to 6% company match
• $2000 Paid‑Paid Vacation bonus
• EAP through Headspace
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