StarCompliance · 4 hours ago
Principal Architect Engineering Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expStarCompliance builds software that supports critical compliance needs for global clients. They are seeking a Principal Engineering Lead to set the architectural direction and lead the Architecture engineering team, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective.
Financial ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the target software architecture for a distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platform operating at scale
Ensure the continued effective documentation of these systems, ensuring the catalogue is in a healthy state
Contribute to the wider organizations engineering teams design of highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable systems using modern distributed systems principles
Work closely with peers in Platform and Infrastructure to continue to evolve our service delivery practices
Ensure principles that are followed are turned into established re-usable patterns
Evolve our multi-tenant architecture patterns, including tenant isolation, data partitioning, security boundaries, and scalability models
Provide deep expertise in messaging and integration patterns event-driven architectures, pub/sub, CQRS, eventual consistency, idempotency, etc.)
Chair the Architecture forum, continuing to evolve our robust approach to complex decision making
Ensure architectural decisions balance performance, security, operability, cost, and developer productivity
Promote consistency without stifling autonomy, enabling teams to move fast on a well-defined platform foundation
Mentor senior and principal engineers, raising the overall architectural maturity of the organization
Work closely with engineering leadership to align architecture with delivery realities
Qualification
Required
Typically 10+ years of commercial software development experience with at least several years of these in a multi-tenant, cloud hosted organization
Expert-level C# and .NET Core knowledge, with experience designing and evolving large-scale, microservices systems
Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including core services, networking, identity, security, and platform services
Proven expertise in distributed systems design, including event-driven and message-based architectures, consistency models and trade-offs, failure modes, resilience patterns, and recovery strategies
Strong understanding of multi-tenant SaaS architectures, ideally in a production environment at scale
Strong knowledge of messaging technologies and patterns
Experience working with enterprise-scale SaaS platforms
Right to work in the country of employment
All positions require pre-employment screening due to employees potentially having access to highly sensitive and confidential information involving finance and compliance; candidates must be trustworthy and have a heightened sensitivity to protecting confidential financial, professional information
Preferred
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) is highly desirable
Relevant certificates are a plus, but not essential
Familiarity with modern observability, monitoring, and operational tooling
Company
StarCompliance
StarCompliance is a provider of regulatory compliance software for the financial services industry.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
StarCompliance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Luminate Capital Partners
2020-12-17Acquired
2017-07-28Private Equity
Leadership Team
Lang Leonard
CFO/COO
Dale Sanders
Director, Technical Operations
Recent News
PR Newswire UK
2025-11-20
2025-11-20
2025-11-03
Company data provided by crunchbase