Principal Software Architect
Operative
Role Description
Operative is seeking an experienced architect with a strong hands-on engineering background and a demonstrated ability to operate independently and drive the technical quality of the teams and codebases they engage with. This individual will serve as a senior technical authority across Operative's platform engineering disciplines, spanning backend services, distributed data infrastructure, and cloud-native architecture.
This role represents a significant opportunity to shape how a complex, high-scale platform evolves:
- Identifying the highest-priority technical investments.
- Establishing the standards and patterns the broader team will follow.
- Driving initiatives from inception through delivery.
- Advancing the use of AI within engineering workflows and the development of agentic capabilities within the platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and lead delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning backend services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
- Drive the adoption and maturity of AI within engineering workflows, including agentic tooling, AI-assisted development practices, and the integration of autonomous AI agents into platform capabilities.
- Identify systemic technical challenges across reliability, performance, scalability, and observability, and own the path to resolution.
- Define and uphold engineering standards across code quality, testing practices, API design, data modeling, and deployment patterns.
- Make well-reasoned architectural decisions in ambiguous or rapidly evolving situations, and communicate those decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Engage across the full technology stack; this role requires both breadth and depth, with the ability to move fluidly between system-level architecture and hands-on implementation.
- Partner with Product and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into coherent technical strategy.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to engineers across the broader global team through design reviews, documentation, code review, and direct collaboration.
- Serve as a senior escalation point for complex or high-impact engineering problems.
Qualities and Working Style
- Operates with a high degree of autonomy and self-direction; identifies what needs to be done without requiring close oversight.
- Holds strong technical opinions grounded in experience, while remaining pragmatic about tradeoffs and context.
- Approaches ambiguity as a problem to be solved rather than a barrier to progress.
- Remains hands-on as a practitioner; this is an engineering leadership role, not a purely advisory one.
- Has a track record of being a go-to resource for difficult, cross-cutting engineering challenges.
- Communicates technical concepts effectively to cross-functional audiences, including product and business stakeholders.
Technical Requirements
- Java / Spring Boot
- Python
- Kafka / Kafka Connect
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Elasticsearch
- MongoDB
- SQL
- Redis
- Serverless / Lambda
- S3 / Object Storage
- CI/CD & DevOps
Depth across all areas is not required; candidates should be able to engage effectively across the stack and demonstrate strong expertise in several. Familiarity with the following areas is also valued:
- Distributed systems design, including event sourcing, CQRS, and saga patterns.
- Platform observability, including distributed tracing, metrics infrastructure, and structured logging at scale.
- Data pipeline architecture, including stream processing, schema evolution, and backpressure management.
- Security and compliance practices within cloud-native environments.
Qualifications
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience with demonstrated scope at the architectural level.
- Prior experience as a senior technical owner of a complex distributed system, with accountability beyond individual contribution.
- Track record of identifying, prioritizing, and driving technical initiatives independently, not solely executing a defined roadmap.
- Experience working effectively within globally distributed engineering organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to improve the technical quality of a team or platform in a measurable and lasting way.
- Background in SaaS platform engineering, with an understanding of the operational demands of continuously available systems.
Benefits
- A senior role with broad technical scope and direct influence over platform direction.
- The opportunity to provide technical leadership across a global engineering organization.
- Competitive compensation commensurate with experience and scope of impact.
- Flexible remote-first work environment.
$227.5k - $280k
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