Principal IoT Platform Architect

licor; United States; Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

licor seeks an accomplished senior software and cloud engineer to set technical direction for connected products and cloud platforms. You will own platform architecture spanning device-to-cloud data, APIs, and services, while remaining hands-on across implementation and reviews.

The role emphasizes observability, security, and scalable design, with travel as needed and options for remote within the United States. Lincoln, NE is a base option.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years in software and cloud engineering with architecture ownership.
• Experience architecting a commercial connected-device/IoT or high-volume data platform.
• Deep expertise with AWS or equivalent public cloud, including IAM, observability, security.
• Strong backend engineering and API design with hands-on coding in a modern language.
• Experience with distributed/event-driven systems, device ingestion and data lifecycle.
• CI/CD, automated testing, incident response, and secure software delivery.
• Ability to explain tradeoffs and mentor engineers; communicate cost/customer impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain platform architecture, data models, and technical roadmaps.
• Review designs for services, APIs, data pipelines, storage, and device-to-cloud flow.
• Identify complexity, guide modernization and retirement of fragile components.
• Shape device data ingestion and cloud processing, with reliability/retention focus.
• Set observability, availability, security, privacy, recovery, and production support expectations.
• Stay hands-on through implementation, prototypes, code reviews, and issue resolution.
• Explain technical tradeoffs and mentor engineers; engage external partners as needed.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

Observability

Security

Leadership through influence

Tools

AWS

Job description

licor seeks an accomplished senior software and cloud engineer to set technical direction for connected products and cloud platforms. You will own platform architecture spanning device-to-cloud data, APIs, and services, while remaining hands-on across implementation and reviews.

The role emphasizes observability, security, and scalable design, with travel as needed and options for remote within the United States. Lincoln, NE is a base option.