Global Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

Heartflow; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Heartflow is seeking a Principal Architect to own the technical strategy for platform performance and international expansion. You will define how the clinical platform scales, drive performance improvements, and architect operation across new geographies with data residency, regulatory, and localization requirements.

This hands-on leadership role combines architecture ownership with people management of an offshore team in Eastern Europe, guiding delivery, quality, and global collaboration

Qualifications

• 15+ years of industry experience in principal, staff, or architect roles.
• Experience building multi-region, scalable, secure distributed systems.
• Proven people leadership across time zones and offshore teams.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures and backend tech (Python/Java).
• Experience with regulatory compliance in FDA/HIPAA medical software.
• Strong data protection and data residency expertise.
• Hands-on with Agile development and modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance strategy for the clinical platform and define latency, throughput, and scalability targets.
• Architect multi-region deployment topology with data residency and sovereignty controls.
• Translate GDPR and market data requirements into architectural requirements and controls.
• Define internationalization architecture for language, units, and regional reporting.
• Directly manage and grow offshore engineering teams across time zones.
• Establish collaboration model for onshore/offshore delivery with clear processes.
• Define and evolve architecture patterns, engineering standards, and tooling for scale.
• Establish observability with instrumentation, telemetry, and SLO framework.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Performance engineering

Cloud architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile / project management

Data protection

Regulatory compliance

Security best practices

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Java

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform / CloudFormation

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Heartflow is seeking a Principal Architect to own the technical strategy for platform performance and international expansion. You will define how the clinical platform scales, drive performance improvements, and architect operation across new geographies with data residency, regulatory, and localization requirements.

This hands-on leadership role combines architecture ownership with people management of an offshore team in Eastern Europe, guiding delivery, quality, and global collaboration