Platform Architect

Embedding; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Embedding is seeking a Platform Architect to own version engineering, module governance, and the system ensuring deployments are reproducible with known-good site compositions across global compliance sites.

You will lead design of the 4-layer testing framework, hermetic builds with content-addressable storage, and a live dependency graph spanning thousands of services. The role demands senior expertise in distributed systems and governance of large-scale platform infrastructures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in large-scale distributed systems / platform infrastructure.
• Deep expertise in build systems and dependency management at scale.
• Production experience with reproducible build engineering and artifact provenance (SLSA).
• Experience building dependency graph tooling and impact computation.
• Strong background in semantic versioning governance across large service fleets.
• Experience with API contract evolution (protobuf/gRPC).
• Experience with multi-region/multi-tenant platform architectures.
• Track record of migrating monolithic systems to modular architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design the version set model for sites with locked, tested module versions and compatibility matrices.
• Architect reproducible build pipelines with hermetic environments and content-addressable storage.
• Build and maintain a live dependency graph spanning 2000+ services with static and runtime analysis.
• Design the monorepo and CODEOWNERS governance with clear module boundaries and enforcement tooling.
• Architect change impact analysis: compute affected modules/sites/tests for PRs and enable selective tests.
• Design GitOps-driven multi-site deployment models with site config repos and automated deployment strategies.
• Architect a four-layer testing framework ensuring gaps block deployments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Build systems

Dependency management

Semantic versioning

API versioning

Protobuf/gRPC

Multi-region platforms

Monolith to modular

Bazel/Buck/Nx

GitOps

Tools

Bazel

Buck

Pants

Nx

CI/CD

Job description

About the Role The company operates 2000+ microservices deployed across dozens of compliance-regulated sites globally. They are transforming this into a modular financial cloud platform — organizing services into 50-100 independently versioned business modules, where each compliance site is a version set (a pinned, validated combination of module versions). As Platform Architect, you will own the version engineering and module governance architecture — the system that ensures every deployment is reproducible, every change's blast radius is computable, and every site composition is a known-good state. This is fundamentally a build systems + dependency management + change propagation problem at financial-grade reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design the version set model: each site defined as a locked, tested combination of module versions (analogous to a Bazel workspace snapshot or Cargo.lock), with version compatibility matrices and automatic constraint solving
• Architect reproducible build pipelines: any module at any version produces byte-identical artifacts regardless of when/where it's built; hermetic build environments, content-addressable artifact storage, SLSA Level 3+ provenance
• Build and maintain the live dependency graph spanning 2000+ services: static analysis (code/API/schema) + runtime analysis (traffic-weighted call patterns), transitive dependency resolution with automatic conflict detection
• Design the monorepo + package ownership governance model: clear module boundaries via DDD, CODEOWNERS enforcement, cross-module change protocols, module boundary enforcement tooling (lint rules, CI checks, architectural fitness functions)
• Architect change impact analysis systems: given any PR, compute which modules/sites/tests are affected; selective test execution (run only dependency-graph-proven relevant tests); change confidence scoring (blast radius + coverage + stability → risk grade)
• Design the GitOps-driven multi-site deployment model: site config repos declaring module versions + compliance parameters, automated deployment strategies (patch auto-deploy, minor with review, major with migration plan, security force-push)
• Architect the four-layer testing framework: Module self-test → Platform compliance tests (parameterized by country) → Cross-module integration tests → Site-specific tests, with automated coverage enforcement that blocks deployments when gaps are detected

Major Requirements

• 10+ years in large-scale distributed systems / platform infrastructure
• Deep expertise in build systems and dependency management at scale: Bazel, Buck, Pants, Nx, or equivalent (1000+ packages)
• Production experience with reproducible build engineering: content-addressable storage, hermetic builds, deterministic CI, artifact provenance (SLSA)
• Experience building dependency graph tooling: static/runtime dependency analysis, impact computation, selective testing
• Strong background in semantic versioning governance across large service fleets: version resolution, compatibility constraints, lockfile-style pinning
• Experience with API contract evolution: protobuf/gRPC versioning, schema evolution strategies, contract testing
• Experience with multi-region/multi-tenant platform architectures serving regulated workloads
• Track record of migrating monolithic systems to modular architectures without business disruption
• Preferred: Experience with Amazon's internal VersionSet / Brazil build system / Apollo deployment, or similar systems at Google (Blaze/Bazel), Meta (Buck/Configerator)
• Preferred: Background at Stripe or Adyen — multi-country financial platform with compliance parameterization