Senior Platform Architect for AI-Driven Defense Systems

Tagup; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tagup is a Series A defense tech company building the Manifest platform that ingests and processes billions of data points from the physical world. You will own architectural domains, from API design to deployment, and work with PhD data scientists and operators to enable fast, reliable decisions.

You will architect the core platform, scale systems, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑quality REST APIs and data pipelines. Expect ownership and rapid decision‑making in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Architect core platform at scale with ownership mindset.
• Design REST APIs and microservices with high availability.
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce code quality.

Responsibilities

• Architect the core platform that ingests, processes, and acts on billions of data points from the physical world.
• Design and implement high‑performance REST APIs and microservices powering Manifest.
• Build robust ETL pipelines to ingest high‑frequency sensor data from diverse assets.
• Institute monitoring, alerting, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure 99.99% availability.

Skills

Architectural leadership

Mentor engineering team

Scale and performance mindset

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Redis

Python

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

Job description

Tagup is a Series A defense tech company building the Manifest platform that ingests and processes billions of data points from the physical world. You will own architectural domains, from API design to deployment, and work with PhD data scientists and operators to enable fast, reliable decisions.

You will architect the core platform, scale systems, and mentor engineers while delivering high‑quality REST APIs and data pipelines. Expect ownership and rapid decision‑making in a dynamic environment.