Principal Architect, AI-Native Developer Experience
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Principal Architect shaping AI-native developer experience for BambooHR’s people intelligence HR platform. Designing agentic engineering, CI/CD, knowledge, and developer-tooling architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture for how BambooHR engineers and AI agents build software together
- Define the technical vision, reference architecture, and incremental roadmap for AI-native development
- Document key decisions in ADRs
- Track emerging models, agents, and developer tools
- Run time-boxed experiments and proofs of concept
- Establish agentic engineering practices, including spec-driven development, context engineering, and review of agent-generated code
- Build shared libraries of skills, tools, and MCP servers
- Evangelize agentic practices through demos, playbooks, and communities of practice
- Architect agentic workflows across triage, implementation, review, testing, and remediation
- Establish autonomy levels and human-in-the-loop guardrails backed by evaluations
- Build engineering and product knowledge layers, including code intelligence, service catalogs, architecture records, domain models, and business rules
- Define standards for agent-ready domains and help teams close gaps
- Redesign CI/CD for agent-authored changes with intelligent test selection, merge queues, quality and security gates, and progressive delivery
- Modernize development environments, onboarding, documentation, and the internal developer portal
- Measure developer experience and productivity
- Partner with Security, Privacy, and Quality Engineering on permissions, sandboxing, and audit trails
- Track AI cost and quality
- Write production code and reference implementations
- Partner with architects and staff engineers across domains
- Mentor engineers developing agentic skills
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience
- At least 7 years in software architecture or staff-plus technical leadership
- Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents
- Track record of turning AI coding agent use into practices or tools adopted by other engineers
- Experience building production LLM systems, including tool calling, agent orchestration, context engineering, RAG, and evals
- Deep experience designing CI/CD, build systems, and developer platforms at scale
- Strong SaaS architecture fundamentals
- Fluency in PHP, React, and MySQL
- Working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10, including for LLM Applications
- Knowledge of supply chain security
- Record of influencing architects and senior engineers without direct authority
- Sound judgment in ambiguous problem spaces
- Exceptional communication, including ability to give and receive direct feedback
- Employment contingent on passing background and credit checks
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
- 4 weeks of vacation
- 12 company holidays
- Parental leave
- Volunteer time off
- 401k plans with up to 6% company match
- $2000 Paid-Paid Vacation bonus
- EAP through Headspace
- Competitive benefits
- Professional development
- Remote work flexibility
- Reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process
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