Principal Architect, AI-Driven Platform

Apollo.io; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 315,000 - 473,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Wellbeing benefits

Employee assistance program

Global travel coverage

Job summary

Apollo.io in San Francisco is seeking a leader to set technical direction across the entire engineering organization. You will own the hardest, most ambiguous bets that shape the product for years and act as a force-multiplier across teams.

You will define AI-native strategies, set architecture, raise the bar with patterns and reviews, mentor senior engineers, and partner with engineering and product leadership to steer the technology roadmap.

Qualifications

• A track record of setting technical direction that shaped a product or platform across an entire engineering organization.
• Depth across distributed systems and architecture, and command of the reliability, scale, and cost tradeoffs behind company-defining decisions.
• The judgment to make the hardest calls under ambiguity, and the influence to align many teams behind them.
• A record of multiplying the most senior engineers around you. Genuine, current fluency with AI-assisted development, and a clear point of view on where AI takes engineering next

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction of Apollo's most critical and most ambiguous problems, across team and organizational boundaries
• Make the architectural bets that shape the product and platform over multiple years, and be accountable for how they play out
• Set the technical strategy for the rebuild around AI and agents, and turn it into direction teams can execute
• Raise the engineering bar across the whole organization through the standards, patterns, and decisions you drive
• Multiply the output of engineers and teams far beyond your own code, through design, review, and mentorship of our most senior engineers
• Partner with engineering and product leadership as a peer on where the technology needs to go.

Skills

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

AI-assisted engineering

Mentorship

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Apollo.io in San Francisco is seeking a leader to set technical direction across the entire engineering organization. You will own the hardest, most ambiguous bets that shape the product for years and act as a force-multiplier across teams.

You will define AI-native strategies, set architecture, raise the bar with patterns and reviews, mentor senior engineers, and partner with engineering and product leadership to steer the technology roadmap.