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Principal Software Architect, Platform Engineering

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Modernize legacy systems onto a unified platform by designing high-leverage architecture, building proof-of-concepts, and ensuring coherent system composition.

Role type

Principal Software Architect (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Production-grade platform infrastructure, reference implementations, and generative AI agent integrations.

Domain

Cloud-native distributed systems, microservices, and AI-native software development.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, microservices architecture, cloud infrastructure operations, generative AI and agent integration, system modernization, cross-cutting dependency management, on-call reliability ownership, technical mentorship, complex system re-architecture, hands-on coding in C/C#/Java/Python/JavaScript

Preferred skills

Azure cloud platform expertise, deep domain knowledge from embedded team work, strategic sequencing of high-stakes migrations

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Prototype and build proof-of-concepts and reference implementations to de-risk architectural decisions, own system composition and cross-cutting dependencies to maintain code coherence, mentor engineers and hold on-call responsibility for shipped systems, integrate generative AI agents into production workflows, feed lessons from hard problems back into platform golden paths, shape architectural direction across teams as an individual contributor

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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