Distinguished Architect, Platform
BambooHRUtah, United States
Posted November 26, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
BambooHR is building a people intelligence platform that transforms HR and sets people free to do great work!
Job Description
BambooHR is seeking a Distinguished Architect to partner with the VP of Software Engineering in leading Platform Engineering. The successful candidate will define and steward the architectural vision for BambooHR's headless, API-first platform and ensure architectural alignment and interoperability across domains.
Requirements
- 10+ years designing and operating public APIs/platforms and IDPs at scale in cloud-native SaaS (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes/containers, service mesh, IaC, progressive delivery)
- Proven ownership of developer portals, SDKs/CLIs, 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- Generous leave policies that include 4 weeks of vacation, 12 company holidays, parental leave, and volunteer time off
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
- EAP through Headspace