Lead AI-Native Developer Experience Architect (Remote)

BambooHR; Draper (UT); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Vacation time

Holidays

Parental leave

Volunteer time off

Job summary

BambooHR is seeking a Principal Architect for AI‑Native Developer Experience to lead architecture for AI‑native development, tooling, and agent integration. You will shape the technical vision, drive experiments, and grow practices across engineering while maintaining strong security and scalable SaaS design.

The role requires a decade of software leadership, deep AI knowledge, and hands‑on coding with agents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience, with 7+ years in architecture or staff‑plus leadership.
• Experience building production LLM systems, including tool calling, agent orchestration, context engineering, RAG, and evals.
• Strong SaaS architecture fundamentals and fluency in stack (PHP, React, MySQL).
• Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and supply chain security.
• Proven ability to influence architects and engineers without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision, reference architecture, and roadmap for AI‑native development, documenting decisions in ADRs.
• Track models, agents, and developer tools; run experiments and proofs of concept; convert successes into patterns.
• Define agentic engineering practices; build shared libraries and evangelize across engineering via demos and playbooks.
• Architect agentic workflows across triage to release with guardrails and evals.
• Provide knowledge layers: code intelligence, service catalogs, architecture records, domain models, business rules.
• Set standards for agent‑ready domains with clear APIs and tests.
• Redesign CI/CD for AI era with intelligent testing and progressive delivery.
• Modernize developer experience, onboarding, and internal portal to serve engineers and agents.
• Partner with Security and Quality to govern trust and cost; ensure auditability.

Skills

AI systems architecture

Agent tooling experience

Software leadership

CI/CD at scale

PHP & React stack

Security (OWASP Top 10)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

MCP servers

LLM tooling

Tooling libraries

Job description

BambooHR is seeking a Principal Architect for AI‑Native Developer Experience to lead architecture for AI‑native development, tooling, and agent integration. You will shape the technical vision, drive experiments, and grow practices across engineering while maintaining strong security and scalable SaaS design.

The role requires a decade of software leadership, deep AI knowledge, and hands‑on coding with agents.