Principal Platform Architect - Global Expansion & Performance

heartflowinc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Heartflow seeks a Principal Architect to own the technical strategy for platform performance and international expansion. You will lead a distributed engineering team, define latency, throughput, and scalability targets, and align architecture with GDPR, data residency, and regional compliance across markets.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-border collaboration, and report architectural trade-offs to executives, ensuring the Heartflow platform scales efficiently for global adoption.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in industry with leadership impact.
• Experience as principal architect or equivalent.
• Healthcare/medical software experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for platform performance and scalability.
• Lead offshore team coordination and delivery across geographies.
• Define regulatory, data residency, and localization requirements in architecture.
• Establish cross-team standards, observability, and risk mitigation.
• Mentor senior engineers and communicate strategy to executives.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Distributed systems

Regulatory compliance

Cloud architecture

Mentor/people management

Cross-border collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

Heartflow seeks a Principal Architect to own the technical strategy for platform performance and international expansion. You will lead a distributed engineering team, define latency, throughput, and scalability targets, and align architecture with GDPR, data residency, and regional compliance across markets.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive cross-border collaboration, and report architectural trade-offs to executives, ensuring the Heartflow platform scales efficiently for global adoption.