Senior Software Architect
Digit7
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States
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About the role
- Own and evolve system architecture across our platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Partner closely with engineering and product teams to design systems that balance speed of delivery with long-term flexibility
- Lead high-impact technical decisions, including trade-offs across performance, cost, and complexity
- Translate ambiguous business or product needs into clear technical approaches and system designs
- Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and scaling bottlenecks, and drive solutions proactively
- Act as a technical mentor and thought partner across teams
- Explore, evaluate, and apply AI tools, frameworks, and workflows to improve both our product and internal development velocity
- Stay current with advancements in AI development and help the team adopt them pragmatically
- Contribute to building a culture of curiosity and experimentation around AI across the organization
- Adopt and drive an AI-first approach to software development cycle, design principals and product capabilities
Requirements
- 20+ years of software engineering experience, with deep experience in system design and architecture
- Proven track record designing and evolving distributed or scalable systems
- Broad experience in AWS cloud architecture, with the ability to design and implement complex data plane and control plane systems
- Comfortable going deep technically while influencing broadly
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly
- Experience with data pipelines, highly scalable systems, cloud native architectures and services
- Experience in Cyber Security is a bonus
Benefits
- We are seeking professionals of all levels who are eager to make a substantial impact and excel in a high-growth, dynamic environment.
- You'll have the opportunity to work on the bleeding edge of technology and drive true innovations, all while collaborating closely with industry veterans who are dedicated to defend the market from the new wave of AI-driven attacks.
- Our culture is centered around respect, collaboration and proactiveness, and a shared commitment to delivering exceptional value to our customers.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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