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BambooHR · 1 month ago

Distinguished Architect, Platform

Utah | Hybrid

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

BambooHR is a company focused on transforming HR through its people intelligence platform. They are seeking a Distinguished Architect to lead Platform Engineering, responsible for defining the architectural vision for their headless, API-first platform and ensuring its alignment and interoperability across various domains.

Human ResourcesSaaSSoftware

Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Set platform vision & reference architectures for a resilient, secure, compliant, multi‑tenant SaaS: identity & permissions, tenancy, configuration, notifications, audit, and compliance guardrails

Architect and guide the evolution of our headless/API-first platform: capability maps for domain APIs, events, and webhooks; OpenAPI/JSON Schema as sources of truth; contract testing; semantic versioning and clear deprecation windows

Architect and influence platform modernization: evolve BambooHR’s core platform architecture—modernizing legacy systems, enabling scalable cloud-native patterns, and ensuring the platform is positioned for future innovation and growth

Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to define and communicate the product vision and strategy from an architectural perspective—representing the architectural vision and tradeoffs to the executive leadership team to ensure alignment across business, product, and technology

Own external developer experience: Developer Portal, interactive docs & explorer, quickstarts, sandbox tenants, API keys & usage dashboards, changelogs/status, language SDKs/CLIs/starter kits with automated releases, and partner onboarding (app registration, scopes/consent, security checks, marketplace publication, proactive change notices)

Elevate how internal developers build on top of the platform: evolve the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to empower teams with standardized, self-service developer workflows, standard SDKs/libraries, and self-service tooling that accelerate delivery and improve DORA metrics and time-to-first-service

Frontend & UX foundations: Partner with frontend architects to ensure the design system, accessibility standards, and frontend platform align with overall platform architecture principles and patterns

Provide architectural guidance for Data & AI platform patterns: guide data modeling, streaming, analytics, AI/agent platform patterns, and evaluation/observability

Ensure reliability, security & compliance by design: public SLOs and error budgets, progressive delivery (canaries), chaos testing, multi-region DR; authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML; RBAC/ABAC), secure webhooks, audit logging; SOC 2/ISO 27001/GDPR baked into designs and pipelines

Guide growth, monetization & FinOps enablement: usage metering, entitlements, pricing tiers, quotas/rate limits; embed unit-economics telemetry (cost per call/event/tenant) to guide caching, capacity, storage tiers, and retention policies

Multiply architectural impact: run ADR/RFC processes, lead design reviews & guilds, mentor Staff/Principal engineers, and prototype to de-risk major bets and migrations

Qualification

API designCloud-native SaaSOAuth2/OIDCDeveloper portalsMulti-tenant architectureEvent-driven systemsData modelingDORA metricsArchitectural visionMentoring

Required

10+ years designing and operating public APIs/platforms and IDPs at scale in cloud‑native SaaS (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/containers, service mesh, IaC, progressive delivery)

Proven ownership of developer portals, SDKs/CLIs, and partner onboarding/marketplaces; shipped versioning/deprecation programs and webhook/event architectures (REST/GraphQL; Kafka/PubSub or equivalents)

Deep security & tenancy: OAuth2/OIDC, scope design, RBAC/ABAC, multi‑tenant isolation, auditing, privacy‑preserving patterns, and compliance baked into workflows

Reliability & observability fluency: tracing/logs/metrics, SLO/error‑budget culture, chaos/DR patterns, secure webhook delivery

DevEx & efficiency impact: measurable DORA improvements, faster time‑to‑first‑service, and improved unit economics/FinOps

Preferred

You've transformed developer experience—measurably improving DORA metrics and internal satisfaction through intuitive platforms and golden paths

You've inspired architectural clarity and alignment across teams, helping leadership and engineers alike rally around a cohesive technical vision

You've cultivated thriving developer ecosystems—both internally and externally—through SDKs, integrations, and marketplaces

You bring deep technical fluency in modern architectural patterns: event-driven systems, GraphQL federation, and emerging data/AI platforms

You're a multiplier of talent: a coach, mentor, and community-builder who elevates architecture culture across the organization

You're known for driving change through influence—able to balance pragmatism with innovation and communicate complex ideas simply

Benefits

Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance

Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life

401k plans with up to 6% company match

$2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus

EAP through Headspace

Company

BambooHR

Glassdoor3.7

BambooHR is a SaaS-based company providing subscription-based HR software for SMEs.

Founded in 2008

Lindon, Utah, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.BambooHR.com

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