Principal Platform Engineer: Cloud & Distributed Systems, Equity

ARCHER

Nashville (TN)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Short-Term Disability Insurance
Long-Term Disability Insurance
Life Insurance
AD&D Insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts
Commuter And Parking Benefits
401(k) Plan With Company Match
Paid Time Off
Paid Holidays
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Parental Leave
Adoption Assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial Planning
Group Legal Benefits
Voluntary Auto Insurance
Homeowner Insurance
Pet Insurance
Bonus
Equity

Job summary

ARCHER is seeking a senior software architecture leader to drive cross-team platform and middleware evolution, improving interoperability and multi-tenant scale. The role defines versioning, rollout, observability, and resilience standards while guiding design, resolving complex issues, and optimizing performance.

You will mentor engineers across teams, coordinate projects with stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives to ensure secure development practices and scalable systems.

Qualifications

  • The role calls for advanced software engineering and architecture expertise, including experience with platform systems, APIs, distributed workloads, scalability, observability, and secure development practices.
  • It also requires technical leadership across teams, complex problem-solving, project coordination, stakeholder collaboration, and coaching of less experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead cross-team platform and middleware evolution to improve interoperability and multi-tenant scale.
  • Establish versioning, rollout, observability, and resilience standards.
  • Guide software design and delivery, resolve complex issues, optimize performance, support customers.
  • Mentor engineers across teams and drive technical leadership across the organization.

Skills

Platform Software Development
Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems
Middleware And Runtime Design
Multi-Tenant Systems
API Versioning And Interoperability
Software Architecture
Observability
Site Reliability
Resilience Engineering
Capacity Planning
Performance Optimization
Scalability
Secure Coding
Debugging And Troubleshooting
Technical Leadership And Mentoring

Job description

ARCHER is seeking a senior software architecture leader to drive cross-team platform and middleware evolution, improving interoperability and multi-tenant scale. The role defines versioning, rollout, observability, and resilience standards while guiding design, resolving complex issues, and optimizing performance.

You will mentor engineers across teams, coordinate projects with stakeholders, and lead technical initiatives to ensure secure development practices and scalable systems.

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