SecurityScorecardEngineering

Chief Architect

RemotePosted today

SecurityScorecard is hiring a Chief Architect to lead the architectural direction of their platform, focusing on scaling a new platform, migrating customers from legacy systems, and building AI-native features. The role involves strategic leadership in backend architecture, distributed systems, and engineering practices.

Location: Remote

Responsibilities

Set and maintain architectural direction across the platform, customer migration, and agentic product features
Prototype and validate architectural decisions before committing teams at scale
Partner with the CTO on technical strategy and engineering roadmap
Manage and develop the Front-end Architect and AI Architect, ensuring their work fits cohesively within the overall architecture
Define and maintain system-wide standards, patterns, and documentation
Mentor senior and staff engineers and measurably elevate technical quality across the org
Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to executives and customers
Develop and maintain a 12–24 month technical roadmap spanning platform infrastructure, APIs, and data architecture

Requirements

12–15+ years of software engineering, with significant time in architectural leadership
Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, and data flows at production scale
Demonstrated experience scaling platforms already in production
Track record owning large-scale data and customer migrations with smooth end-user outcomes
Strong experience designing REST APIs at scale; familiarity with gRPC
Enough breadth to lead and evaluate a Front-end Architect and AI Architect without owning those domains directly
Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers
Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture