Principal Architect | Scalable Platform & AI

Moon Innovation Technologies; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Moon Innovation Technologies in the United States is seeking a senior individual contributor to lead architecture across the engineering organization. You will own the platform's health, performance, and security, working directly with the VP of Engineering.

You will design scalable systems for a high-growth SaaS product, mentor teams, review designs and code, and set standards that improve velocity and reliability across Moon's engineering effort.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering with staff/principal scope at high-growth startups.
• Explain infinitely scalable design choices with concrete examples.
• Deep distributed systems, data modeling, API design, and security expertise.
• Mentorship track where engineers volunteer testimonials.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the platform and everything that crosses team boundaries - designed for performance, uptime, and security as first principles.
• Take the hardest problems and the tightest deadlines yourself, as an IC, and deliver them.
• Know the application's mechanics in detail: every critical path, every seam, every failure mode.
• Mentor the engineering team to greatness: code review, design review, pairing, and example - you are the standard others calibrate against.
• Own engineering health with the VP of Engineering - the processes and systems, not the people management - that keep quality, velocity, and reliability high.
• Ship continuously: reference implementations, the hardest seams, and the automated guardrails that protect the platform.
• Make simple things that scale when they need to - and kill elegant things that don't ship.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Distributed systems

API design

Security expertise

Mentorship

Clear technical writing

Job description

Moon Innovation Technologies in the United States is seeking a senior individual contributor to lead architecture across the engineering organization. You will own the platform's health, performance, and security, working directly with the VP of Engineering.

You will design scalable systems for a high-growth SaaS product, mentor teams, review designs and code, and set standards that improve velocity and reliability across Moon's engineering effort.