Senior AI-Native Platform Architect

Jobtailor; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced principal/architect-level engineer in Kirkland, WA to design and deploy scalable, high-performance systems across the stack. You will lead the AI-native platform, crafting agentic workflows that plan, call tools, and execute multi-step tasks in production, not just prototypes.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and drive complex projects end-to-end while managing technical debt and documenting architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 14+ years of professional software engineering experience, including architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable, high-performance solutions across the stack and establish architectural standards for reliability, security, and performance the team builds against.
• Help build our AI-native platform - designing agentic workflows that plan, call tools, and run multi-step tasks in production, not just as prototypes
• Stay close to customers - understand their real workflows, sit with their hardest problems, and carry that context back into the architecture and roadmap
• Lead and mentor engineers across disciplines, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment
• Partner with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define requirements and deliver integrated solutions that meet both business and technical needs
• Own the lifecycle of complex, multi-area projects - ensuring timely, high-quality delivery, resolving hard technical issues, and managing technical debt with the judgment to keep momentum
• Document key architectural designs and decisions, and share knowledge so the team can build, debug, and learn faster

Skills

Scalable distributed systems

AI-agent capabilities

Python

Node.js

Java

SQL

NoSQL

RESTful APIs

Microservices

GenAI workflows

Semantic search

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced principal/architect-level engineer in Kirkland, WA to design and deploy scalable, high-performance systems across the stack. You will lead the AI-native platform, crafting agentic workflows that plan, call tools, and execute multi-step tasks in production, not just prototypes.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and drive complex projects end-to-end while managing technical debt and documenting architectural decisions.