Senior Engineer / Architect

About the role

This is a full-time role based in Austin or Dallas, Texas. This is a cross-functional role sitting in Sixth Street’s Core Engineering team. This role is closely aligned to our data and developer platforms but has a horizontal view across all engineering teams and stacks. This person will help ensure that teams are following “golden paths” and best practices, while also identifying common patterns and opportunities to factor shared solutions into central platform capabilities or libraries. This is not an ivory-tower position. It is hands-on and commercial. Areas of focus will include data pipelines, APIs, Service Oriented Architecture, and helping bring POC projects to market.

Skills

Python, Java, ReactAWSApache AirflowKafka CDK, Terraform

Responsibilities

• Design Partnership: Partner with development teams on complex architectural decisions; provide hands-on, practical feedback to ensure designs are robust, maintainable, and commercially sound.
• Golden Path Advocacy: Collaborate with Platform and Security teams to shape and drive adoption of “Golden Paths”; bring field feedback to the Platform team to ensure standards reflect real-world delivery needs.
• Platform Bridge: Serve as a technical bridge between product teams and Platform Engineering; translate recurring delivery friction into requirements for shared capabilities or libraries.
• Mentor and influence development teams on sound architectural principles, design patterns, and technical trade-offs; help senior engineers and tech leads think through complex decisions.
• Conduct hands-on technical due diligence on significant projects and architectural decisions; participate in design reviews and provide guidance to prevent costly mistakes.
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