Senior Backend Architect — Grid Apps & Tapestry (Planet-Scale)

X Development; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 369,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Tapestry is a Google moonshot project focused on building tools for a smarter, cleaner energy grid. We seek an experienced engineering leader to drive technical strategy, set architecture, and guide enterprise applications at planet scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, ML experts, power systems engineers, and product managers across multiple teams to deliver impactful outcomes. You will steer design practices, mentoring, and hands-on contributions while maintaining Sky-level reliability

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Experience leading large-scale technical projects as an IC, tech lead, or architect.
• Designing and scaling reliable production systems with data processing and modeling.
• Proficiency in a major backend language (Java or Kotlin) and CS fundamentals.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (preferred) or AWS/Azure.
• Understanding reliability engineering and performance optimization.
• Ability to translate strategic ambiguity into technical roadmaps for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive technical strategy aligned with product roadmaps and customer priorities.
• Architect enterprise applications for scale, availability, fault tolerance, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and engineers to deliver high-impact solutions.
• Maintain deep technical depth and deliver robust, maintainable systems.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend infrastructure

Enterprise apps

Java

Kotlin

GCP

Reliability engineering

Performance optimization

Strategic communication

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

React

LLM orchestration

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Tapestry is a Google moonshot project focused on building tools for a smarter, cleaner energy grid. We seek an experienced engineering leader to drive technical strategy, set architecture, and guide enterprise applications at planet scale.

You will collaborate with engineers, ML experts, power systems engineers, and product managers across multiple teams to deliver impactful outcomes. You will steer design practices, mentoring, and hands-on contributions while maintaining Sky-level reliability