Engine
Principal Architect
$250K–$285K
Remote - US · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years
About the job
Guide Engine’s transition from monolithic applications to distributed systems by setting architecture, service boundaries, and technical direction across teams.
What you'll do
- Define architectural practices and shape the technical roadmap for service design and system interactions.
- Lead the transition to distributed systems, maintaining scalability, resilience, and maintainability.
- Solve complex technical challenges and mentor engineers across teams.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of experience designing and evolving high-scale distributed systems.
- Architectural leadership driving major technical initiatives across multiple teams and influencing engineering direction.
- Experience designing modular, loosely coupled systems and breaking monoliths into services.
- Expertise in cloud environments and services, API design, service boundaries, and distributed-system patterns.
Nice to have
- AWS
Pay
$250,000 — $285,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, REST, gRPC
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