Remote Principal Architect — AI‑Driven Platform

Testlio; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Learning stipend

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Testlio is seeking a Principal Architect to serve as a hands-on individual contributor who shapes our application and platform architecture in a fully remote environment. You will drive production-ready systems and enable the next generation of intelligent distributed software testing solutions.

You will own architectural standards, guide a global engineering team, and integrate secure AI/LLM patterns into core services while balancing performance, scalability, and cost.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of hands-on software development experience building cloud-native, business-critical platforms.
• Advanced mastery of distributed system patterns, data modeling, event-driven design, and database technologies (Relational and NoSQL).
• Proven track record designing and migrating application infrastructures, specifically moving from monolithic architectures to modular services.
• Deep experience establishing enterprise-ready patterns in AWS, emphasizing high availability, cost optimization, and secure infrastructure.
• Strong familiarity with modern full-stack code environments, including front-end web frameworks, scripting languages, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Practical, production-grade experience deploying AI/ML or LLM-based solutions with an emphasis on observable, safe automation patterns.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and deploy scalable, production-grade services directly across the core Testlio software platform.
• Author clear architectural standards and reference patterns that define domain boundaries, decoupling our current codebase into modular services.
• Partner with the Director of Engineering to execute frontend framework consolidation, improving operational performance and observability.
• Safeguard system efficiency and regulatory posture by designing with security, cost-efficiency, and ISO 27001 expectations at the center.
• Integrate secure AI/LLM patterns into customer-facing surfaces, establishing strict operational guardrails and failure modes for our Quality API.
• Advise executive, product, and engineering teams on major technical tradeoffs, translating business needs into clean technical strategies.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

AWS

AI/LLM deployment

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Relational & NoSQL

Job description

Testlio is seeking a Principal Architect to serve as a hands-on individual contributor who shapes our application and platform architecture in a fully remote environment. You will drive production-ready systems and enable the next generation of intelligent distributed software testing solutions.

You will own architectural standards, guide a global engineering team, and integrate secure AI/LLM patterns into core services while balancing performance, scalability, and cost.