Senior Platform Architect Remote, Scalable Systems

Tenna; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote - nationwide

Travel 8-10%

401k match

PTO

Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Tenna is seeking a Principal Architect to set the long-term technical direction for its platform. You’ll lead design reviews, establish standards, and guide cross‑team efforts to build scalable microservices on AWS (EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL) with Node.js.

You’ll partner with engineering leadership to translate vision into executable roadmaps, drive reliability, and mentor teams while solving real-world data and IoT challenges for our nationwide remote workforce.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years in architectural leadership role.
• Experience turning high-level concepts into clear, documented patterns and designs.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with JavaScript/Node.js in service-based architectures (RabbitMQ, HTTP) on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Own the execution of the Executive Team’s technical strategy, turning high-level goals into actionable milestones and scalable system designs.
• Lead by example by personally building prototypes, core libraries, and foundational projects that set the standard for how the rest of the team builds.
• Set and enforce technical standards, ensuring every design choice handles failure modes, scalability, and performance in our production environment.
• Run a rigorous design review process that prioritizes backward compatibility and solid verification for our data-heavy systems.
• Evolve our microservices (Node.js/EKS/AWS), focused on reducing technical debt and making the system run more efficiently as we scale.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to make sure requirements are crystal clear and that what actually gets built stays true to the original vision.
• Master the data lifecycle, from IoT ingestion to storage and processing, building the foundations that our teams will eventually own.
• Roll up your sleeves to implement observability and monitoring standards, ensuring our platform hits the highest possible bar for uptime.

Skills

Distributed systems

Microservices architecture

Technical leadership

Communication

API design

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science

Tools

Node.js

RabbitMQ

AWS (EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL)

Job description

Tenna is seeking a Principal Architect to set the long-term technical direction for its platform. You’ll lead design reviews, establish standards, and guide cross‑team efforts to build scalable microservices on AWS (EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL) with Node.js.

You’ll partner with engineering leadership to translate vision into executable roadmaps, drive reliability, and mentor teams while solving real-world data and IoT challenges for our nationwide remote workforce.