Summary
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We are a well-funded, global technology company standing up a brand-new US engineering center, looking for a Platform Architect to define and own the technical foundation from day one. You will take ownership of the architecture behind a large-scale, multi-site cloud platform supporting hundreds of engineers across dozens of global compliance regions. This is not an inherited system — you will set the technical direction, establish the standards, and build the platform other engineering teams rely on for years to come. This is a true greenfield build. The people who join early will shape not just the architecture, but the engineering culture and hiring bar for the team that follows. You will own the end-to-end architecture of a multi-module deployment platform. This role is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a budget of $1M-$1.5M total compensation.
Highlights
Open budget role with total compensation of $1M-$1.5M, rare greenfield platform build opportunity, ownership of architecture from day one, chance to shape engineering culture and hiring bar, well-funded global technology company building a brand-new US engineering center.
Description
Platform Architect - Greenfield US Engineering Build - Bay Area - Open Budget
Role: Platform Architect
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Budget: Open - currently interviewing at $1 - 1.5m TC
A well-funded, global technology company is standing up a brand-new US engineering center, and are looking for a Platform Architect to define and own the technical foundation from day one.
The Opportunity
You'll take ownership of the architecture behind a large-scale, multi-site cloud platform supporting hundreds of engineers across dozens of global compliance regions.
This isn't an inherited system - you'll be setting the technical direction, establishing the standards, and building the platform other engineering teams rely on for years to come.
This is a true greenfield build.
The people who join early will shape not just the architecture, but the engineering culture and hiring bar for the team that follows.
What You'll Own
The end-to-end architecture of a multi-module deployment platform - versioning strategy, dependency and change-impact tooling, and a GitOps-based deployment model across multiple sites and environmentsPlatform-wide standards for API design, build integrity, and software supply chain securityThe systems that let engineering teams understand what's affected when code changes, and safely promote changes from staging through productionArchitectural reviews and technical mentorship for senior engineers across the orgClose partnership with security, compliance, and product leadership to keep the platform aligned with regulatory requirements across every region it operates in
What We're Looking For
10+ years in software engineering, with a strong track record in platform or infrastructure architectureReal experience designing and owning a developer platform used in production by 100+ engineers - not just operating or configuring tools someone else builtHands-on depth in at least several of: reproducible/hermetic build systems, dependency management at scale, version and compatibility governance, artifact registry design, and large-scale code/module organizationStrong Kubernetes and GitOps experience, and comfort working in GoCurrent or recent experience at a major cloud provider, hyperscaler, or a platform/infrastructure team at a leading fintech or crypto companyThe ability to reason about architectural tradeoffs at a system level, not just execute against a spec
Good to Have
Background with regulated or financial workloadsExperience with modern build tooling at scale (Bazel or similar)Multi-region or multi-tenant platform design experience
The Details
Senior/Staff-to-Principal levelBased in the San Francisco Bay Area, with flexibility for exceptional remote candidatesCompensation is highly competitive and open for the right person
If this sounds like the kind of platform you'd want to build from scratch, reach out - happy to share more in a confidential conversation.
