Lead Platform Architect: Remote, Distributed AI Execution

Towards AI, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 240,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Towards AI, Inc. in Seattle, WA, is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to own the core execution model and platform architecture for a distributed operating system.

You will define abstractions and APIs that connect diverse components, ensuring correctness, scalability, and security under realistic workloads. You will lead architecture decisions across teams, emphasize reliability and observability, and shape how advanced LLM capabilities are integrated into the system.

Qualifications

• Extensive distributed system/Platform architecture ownership experience.
• Experience delivering mission-critical runtimes or workflow/orchestration systems.
• Deep expertise in durable execution (state machines, event sourcing).
• Proven security/governance in production systems (authentication, RBAC, audit, policy).

Responsibilities

• Own the core execution model and platform architecture for a shared operating system.
• Define abstractions and APIs to connect system components.
• Ensure correctness, scalability, and extensibility under real-world conditions including failure scenarios.

Skills

API design

System design

Technical leadership

Security & governance

Observability (Grafana, tracing)

Go / Rust / Java / TypeScript

Cloud-native stacks (containers, CI/CD

IaC

State machines / event sourcing

Tools

Grafana

AWS

Airflow

HuggingFace

OpenAI tools

BAGrafanaGridJSON

Job description

Towards AI, Inc. in Seattle, WA, is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to own the core execution model and platform architecture for a distributed operating system.

You will define abstractions and APIs that connect diverse components, ensuring correctness, scalability, and security under realistic workloads. You will lead architecture decisions across teams, emphasize reliability and observability, and shape how advanced LLM capabilities are integrated into the system.