Restaurant365 · 14 hours ago
Principal Software Architect, Data/AI/ML
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$190K/yr - $285K/yr
14+ years expRestaurant365 is a SaaS company disrupting the restaurant industry with a cloud-based platform for accounting and back-office operations. The Principal Software Architect, Data/AI/ML is a senior technical leader responsible for the core data architecture that powers the company's analytics, reporting, and AI capabilities, focusing on designing shared data services and platforms.
AccountingProductivity ToolsRestaurantsSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Define and enable data architecture and engineering standards across Product Lines, ensuring consistent patterns for modeling, storage, access, governance, and responsible AI/ML usage
Lead data-focused architecture reviews and technical governance for new products, platform initiatives, and AI/ML solutions, with particular emphasis on scalable, secure use of Snowflake and related cloud data services
Own the reference architectures for enterprise data platforms, including Snowflake-based warehouses/lakehouses, streaming/real-time data, semantic models, and analytics/BI consumption patterns used across product teams
Partner with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to design data platforms that support analytics, reporting, operational workloads, and AI/ML use cases, ensuring clear data contracts and safe pathways for AI feature development
Drive modernization of legacy schemas, ETL/ELT pipelines, and reporting stacks into scalable, cloud-native data and AI platforms with clear service and data domain boundaries, leveraging Snowflake and modern orchestration tooling where appropriate
Define and promote patterns for data contracts, event-driven architecture, and CDC/streaming feeds that enable reliable, low-latency data sharing across systems and make high-quality data continuously available for AI/ML workloads
Establish standards and best practices for data quality, lineage, observability, cataloging, and governance (including privacy, security, and compliance requirements) so AI/ML features are built on trustworthy, well-understood datasets
Partner with AI and engineering teams to design data and feature platforms that power modern AI workloads (e.g., feature stores, vector search, retrieval-augmented generation, and model-serving integrations), including how these are realized on Snowflake and adjacent services
Anticipate long-term risks in data growth, performance, reliability, and cost (including Snowflake usage and storage/compute patterns), and design solutions that prevent systemic issues across products and environments
Mentor architects, principal engineers, and data engineers across teams, raising organizational maturity in data and AI architecture and accelerating adoption of shared patterns for Snowflake, data contracts, and AI/ML enablement
Operate as a trusted technical advisor to executives and senior leaders, translating data and AI architecture decisions into clear business value, risk tradeoffs, and roadmap implications
Represent the company in data and AI technical communities, helping position Restaurant365 as a leading data-driven and AI-enabled SaaS platform
Qualification
Required
BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
14+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering large-scale data platforms and distributed systems
Proven leadership in data and/or analytics architecture, engineering standards, and cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, and infrastructure teams
Recognized expertise in multiple data domains, such as data warehousing/lakehousing, data modeling, streaming/event-based architectures, and analytics/BI enablement
Deep experience with modern data platform technologies, including hands-on architectural experience with Snowflake (or a closely comparable cloud data warehouse) as well as SQL Server/Azure SQL, cloud storage, streaming platforms, and ETL/ELT tooling
Strong understanding of AI/ML data needs, including feature engineering, model training/serving data flows, vector stores, and observability for data-driven and AI-powered products; experience designing data architectures that reliably feed ML platforms, feature stores, or model-serving layers
Demonstrated success leading modernization and decomposition efforts (e.g., monolithic reporting stacks to domain-aligned, Snowflake-centric cloud-native data platforms; batch pipelines to streaming/event-driven patterns)
Mastery of system and data design, including tradeoff analysis for scalability, reliability, performance, cost (including Snowflake cost optimization), and regulatory requirements
Track record of influencing company-wide technical strategy through data and AI architecture decisions, with measurable impact on product velocity and quality
Excellent communication and storytelling skills, capable of explaining complex data and AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives
Strong coaching and mentorship skills, with experience developing senior engineers and architects in data and AI domains
Benefits
Comprehensive medical benefits, 100% paid for employee
401k + matching
Equity Option Grant
Unlimited PTO + Company holidays
Wellness initiatives
Company
Restaurant365
Restaurant365 is an enterprise management software for restaurants that provides accounting, inventory, scheduling, and payroll solutions.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$437.5MKey Investors
ICONIQ GrowthBessemer Venture Partners
2024-05-15Private Equity· $175M
2023-05-19Private Equity· $135M
2019-06-27Series C· $88M
Leadership Team
Morgan Harris
Co-Founder
Kate Kemp
Chief People Officer
Recent News
2025-09-17
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