Distinguished Architect, Data Technology

About the role

BambooHR is seeking a Distinguished Architect to partner with the VPs of Software Engineering, Software Architects, and Cloud Engineering in leading the Bamboo Product’s Data Technology Architecture.

Responsibilities

• Set data storage vision & reference architectures for a resilient, secure, compliant, multi-tenant SaaS: identity & permissions, tenancy, configuration, notifications, audit, and compliance guardrails.
• Architect and guide the evolution of our data storage technology: continuity of data, relational databases, replication strategy, caching, graphing, and multi-tenancy. Work closely with the platform on how these systems support UDM and API platform data innovation.
• Architect and influence data technology modernization: evolve BambooHR’s core data architecture—modernizing legacy systems, enabling scalable cloud-native patterns, and ensuring the platform is positioned for future innovation and growth.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership to define and communicate the product vision and strategy from a data architecture perspective—representing the architectural vision and tradeoffs to the executive leadership team to ensure alignment across business, product, and technology.
• Elevate how internal developers build on top of the data platform: evolve the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to empower teams with standardized, self-service developer workflows, standard approaches, and self-service tooling that accelerate delivery and improve DORA metrics and time-to-first-service.
• Provide architectural guidance for Data & AI platform patterns: guide data modeling, streaming, analytics, AI/agent platform patterns, and evaluation/observability.
• Ensure reliability, security & compliance by design: public SLOs and error budgets, progressive delivery (canaries), chaos testing, multi-region DR; authN/authZ (OAuth2/OIDC/SAML; RBAC/ABAC), secure webhooks, audit logging; SOC 2/ISO 27001/GDPR baked into designs and pipelines.
• Guide growth, monetization & FinOps enablement: usage metering, entitlements, pricing tiers, quotas/rate limits; embed unit-economics telemetry (cost per call/event/tenant) to guide caching, capacity, storage tiers, and retention policies.
• Multiply architectural impact: run ADR/RFC processes, lead design reviews & guilds, mentor Staff/Principal engineers, and prototype to de-risk major bets and migrations.

Requirements

• 10+ years designing and operating data storage technology at scale in cloud-native SaaS (AWS/GCP, MySQL, relational, graph database, NoSQL, caching, event systems, progressive delivery).
• Proven ownership of data movement through developer portals and partner onboarding/marketplaces; shipped versioning/deprecation programs and webhook/event architectures (REST/GraphQL; Kafka/PubSub or equivalents).
• Deep security & tenancy: OAuth2/OIDC, scope design, RBAC/ABAC, multi-tenant isolation, auditing, privacy-preserving patterns, and compliance baked into workflows.
• Reliability & observability fluency: tracing/logs/metrics, SLO/error-budget culture, chaos/DR patterns, secure webhook delivery.
• DevEx & efficiency impact: measurable DORA improvements, faster time-to-first-service, and improved unit economics/FinOps.

Qualifications

• You’ve transformed developer experience—measurably improving DORA metrics and internal satisfaction through intuitive platforms and golden paths.
• You’ve inspired architectural clarity and alignment across teams, helping leadership and engineers alike rally around a cohesive technical vision.
• You’ve cultivated thriving developer ecosystems—both internally and externally—through SDKs, integrations, and marketplaces.
• You bring deep technical fluency in modern architectural patterns: event-driven systems, GraphQL federation, and emerging data/AI platforms.
• You’re a multiplier of talent: a coach, mentor, and community-builder who elevates architecture culture across the organization.
• You’re known for driving change through influence—able to balance pragmatism with innovation and communicate complex ideas simply.

Benefits

A Great Company Culture that has been recognized by multiple organizations like Inc, and Salt Lake Tribune
Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off so you can enjoy quality of life
401k plans with up to 6% company match
$2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
EAP through Headspace
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