Emergence Software · 5 hours ago
System Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expEmergence Software is seeking a System Architect with a strong DevOps foundation who will own the design, connection, and operation of systems in production. The role involves shaping automation and intelligent workflows while balancing reliability, scalability, cost, and speed in system architecture.
B2B
Responsibilities
Own and evolve end-to-end system architecture across cloud infrastructure, backend services, CI/CD pipelines, data flows, and third-party integrations
Design systems that are scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient
Create and review HLDs and LLDs, and guide teams on architectural trade-offs
Identify system risks, bottlenecks, and dependency issues before they impact production
Document architectural decisions with clear rationale and long-term implications
Design and maintain architecture for message queues and async systems (SQS/PubSub/Kafka/RabbitMQ), including retries and DLQs
Own observability strategy across logs, metrics, tracing, and alerting (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, cloud-native tools)
Define system-level SLOs/SLAs, reliability targets, and incident response patterns
Own security architecture including RBAC, audit logs, secrets management, and access controls
Design and own event-driven workflows using queues + orchestrators (Temporal / Airflow / Dagster / Prefect or equivalent), with clear state transitions, retries, idempotency, and failure handling
Translate business and operational needs into durable, observable, and failure-safe system logic
Integrate AI/LLM components where useful, with guardrails, fallbacks, and human-in-the-loop controls
Build workflow state machines with clear step-level observability, rollback paths, and human-in-loop override mechanisms
Work closely with product, data, and engineering teams to align system design with business needs
Define and enforce best practices for infrastructure, deployments, observability, security controls, and reliability targets
Clearly explain architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Qualification
Required
4–7 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure roles
Strong experience owning system design and architecture
Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability patterns, and performance optimization
Proven experience designing and reviewing HLDs and LLDs
Backend architecture knowledge: APIs, authentication flows, service boundaries
Database design and performance experience with MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
Hands-on experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform
CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and infrastructure fundamentals
Strong computer science fundamentals: system design, reliability, performance trade-offs
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) and deployment tooling (Helm, cluster design fundamentals)
Experience designing message-driven systems (Kafka / RabbitMQ / SQS / PubSub) including DLQs and replay patterns
Strong understanding of API integration reliability (webhooks, retries, idempotency keys, rate limiting)
Security fundamentals: RBAC, audit logging, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit
Reliability engineering mindset: SLO/SLI monitoring, incident response, DR planning (RPO/RTO)
Python for scripting, automation, and prototyping
Backend frameworks such as Flask or similar
REST APIs, webhook integrations, and API reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, circuit breakers)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, or cloud-native equivalents)
Kubernetes tooling (Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD or equivalents)
Preferred
Experience integrating business or GTM systems
Familiarity with workflow automation or event-driven architectures
Exposure to AI/LLM-powered systems in production
Familiarity with frontend systems for architectural context
Experience with distributed tracing and telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, etc.)
Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure and isolation patterns
Company
Emergence Software
Emergence Software is a dedicated permanent equity partner backed by The Pritzker Organization, a long-standing investment organization.
11-50 employees
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