Senior Platform Architect — AI-Driven Internal Tools

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Search AI Company in the United States is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead IT platform engineering. You will own architecture, design patterns, and the build-vs-buy strategy for internal SaaS replacements, using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and AI capabilities.

Join a stake in shaping cost governance, security posture, and observability across enterprise systems while mentoring teams and delivering high-impact, scalable software.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years as a principal engineer.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with Elasticsearch — data modelling, query design, aggregations, performance tuning, and production operations.
• Strong full-stack engineering capability: build and own a system end-to-end from data ingress to frontend.
• Proven track record of building and shipping commercial software or platform systems.
• Architectural judgment: ability to scope problems and defend build-vs-buy decisions with data.
• Strong written communication; ability to write architecture decisions and standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic build-vs-buy engineering across IT platform components.
• Design and build company-native internal platforms using Elasticsearch stack.
• Evaluate and replace SaaS products with internal solutions where viable.
• Collaborate with IT, Security, Platform Engineering, and Finance.
• Set architectural standards, design patterns, and engineering practices.

Skills

Elasticsearch expertise

Full-stack engineering

Build-vs-buy analysis

Architectural judgment

Technical leadership

Written communication

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

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Job description

Search AI Company in the United States is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead IT platform engineering. You will own architecture, design patterns, and the build-vs-buy strategy for internal SaaS replacements, using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and AI capabilities.

Join a stake in shaping cost governance, security posture, and observability across enterprise systems while mentoring teams and delivering high-impact, scalable software.