Staff Software Engineer - Platform and Cloud Services

Agiloft; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Agiloft, the data-first contract lifecycle management leader, is building a foundational engineering team. You will own a core platform domain, shaping its architecture, scalability, reliability, and security as our product and customer base grow.

This hands-on leadership role blends deep backend and cloud expertise with the influence to drive architecture across teams. You will work with product, engineering, and partner teams to translate business goals into durable platform designs and

Qualifications

• Experience owning canonical data models and service boundaries.
• Proven ability to translate product goals into scalable platform architectures.
• Strong collaboration with product and engineering leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own domain architecture for critical platform components.
• Design AWS-native, event-driven services.
• Lead cross-functional architectural direction and produce design docs.
• Ensure security, multi-tenant isolation and reliability.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

AWS

Security

Leadership

Cross-functional

Platform architecture

Job description

As the most trusted global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, Agiloft helps organizations manage the end-to-end process of proposing, negotiating, signing, and leveraging contracts using our flexible Data-first Agreement Platform (DAP). With contract data as the foundation, customers quickly and collaboratively reach agreement and leverage contract visibility to thrive with competitive advantage. Employing powerful, pragmatic artificial intelligence as a legal force multiplier, and robust integration capabilities as a data liberator, organizations around the world trust Agiloft's certified implementers to deliver connected, intelligent, and autonomous solutions across the entire contract lifecycle.

Top analysts like Gartner, Forrester, and IDC agree, all showing Agiloft as a leader in the CLM space. Our no code platform is easily managed and administered by business users, which is why Agiloft is the contract you keep: nearly a full 100% of new customers are satisfied with their initial implementations, and some 97% of customers renew every year. Ours is a growing, vibrant, successful company that is at the forefront of a market that is becoming a must-have for all organizations.

We believe that the way to build the strongest, most vibrant place to work is to bring in individuals from all walks of life, and to support them in bringing their authentic selves to their day, every day. Our working philosophy is that "EX = CX": when employee experience is excellent, so is customer experience. We support multiple Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), and offer a working environment that supports healthy work/life balance, including floating holidays and a quarterly, no-questions-asked wellness day.

### **Position Overview**

This is a foundational engineering role. You will own a critical domain of the platform on which Agiloft's CLM product is built as one of a small team of staff engineers who each own a core part of the platform and shape its direction together. This is a backend- and distributed-systems--weighted position with deep ownership of your domain and end-to-end accountability for its design, scalability, reliability, and security as the product and customer base grow.

You will work across the organization with engineering leaders, senior engineers, product leaders, and partner teams to understand where the product is going, translate business and product goals into durable platform architectures, and align diverse stakeholders on the technical direction. This means, you will set architectural direction alongside a peer group of staff engineers of your caliber. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines deep backend and cloud expertise with the influence to drive architecture across functional boundaries.

**DATA MODEL & PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE**

• Own the canonical data models and service boundaries in your domain
• Design models and boundaries that let independent systems evolve in parallel without duplicating logic or creating competing implementations
• Evolve the platform through additive, backward-compatible changes that introduce new capabilities without disrupting existing behavior.
• Own the architecture of one or more critical platform domains, with responsibility for design integrity, scalability, reliability, security, and long-term technical health.

**DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS & CLOUD ARCHITECTURE (AWS)**

• Design AWS-native, event-driven and asynchronous services that scale on demand, degrade gracefully under load, and remain cost-efficient as volume grows.
• Architect the backend to enable and support AI/ML workloads at scale with a focus on performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Act as architectural steward for these services, keeping them scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable as customer and platform demands grow.
• Drive cloud-native design principles: stateless services, managed-service adoption, and failure-tolerant, self-healing architectures.

**SECURITY & MULTI-TENANCY**

• Treat tenant isolation, authentication, and authorization as first-class design concerns across every service and API you own.
• Design secure authentication and token-handling flows, permission-aware data access, and safe credential management for an enterprise, multi-tenant platform.
• Design for correct, isolated behavior across tenant, environment, and data-residency boundaries, and reason explicitly about security posture and blast radius when centralizing sensitive capabilities.

**TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INFLUENCE**

• Partner with product- and engineering leaders to develop a deep understanding of customer and business needs and translate them into platform architectures that solve the problem
• Lead the technical design of major platform initiatives end to end, and drive alignment across teams and functions whose priorities and incentives do not always converge.
• Integrate diverse stakeholders and project teams around a shared technical direction, navigating differing functional interests with sound judgment and strong interpersonal skill.
• Produce clear, rigorous design documents, service contracts, and acceptance criteria that others can review, build on, and trust, setting the standard for technical design on the team.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate and sharpen design and implementation, applying the judgment to know where they add leverage and where deeper thinking