Staff Software Architect - Cloud & AI Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Agiloft is seeking a foundational staff engineer to own a core platform domain within our data-first CLM product. You will shape architectural direction, work across engineering leaders, and drive design and implementation of scalable, secure backend services in a cloud-native environment.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep backend expertise, cloud experience, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries while maintaining delivery velocity and high quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software or Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or a comparable field.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years at staff level.
• Leadership of architecture decisions spanning multiple teams with concrete examples of driving cross-team technical direction to a decision.
• Strong proficiency in Python (working experience in Java a plus), building backend and cloud-based services.
• Experience designing backend systems for high-throughput data pipelines, asynchronous processing, or ML/inference services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own initiatives end to end from design through release, with accountability for product quality in your domain and high standards for reliability, security, observability, performance, scalability, usability, and cost.
• Champion modern practices: infrastructure‑as‑code, automated testing, continuous delivery, and observability‑by‑default.
• Lead platform‑modernization and refactoring initiatives while maintaining delivery velocity and improve the developer experience for the services you own.
• Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers, raising the bar for data-model and systems design, security, and design‑document quality.

Skills

Python

Java

AWS

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Service architecture

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Observability

Security

Multi-tenancy

API design

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Agiloft is seeking a foundational staff engineer to own a core platform domain within our data-first CLM product. You will shape architectural direction, work across engineering leaders, and drive design and implementation of scalable, secure backend services in a cloud-native environment.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep backend expertise, cloud experience, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries while maintaining delivery velocity and high quality.