# Principal Architect, AI-Native Developer Experience

**Company**: BambooHR
**Location**: Arizona
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Architect for AI-Native Developer Experience to lead the architecture for how BambooHR engineers and agents build software together.

As a Principal Architect, you will:

- Set the direction for AI-native development, defining the technical vision, reference architecture, and incremental roadmap.

- Experiment and prove out emerging models, agents, and developer tools, running time-boxed experiments and proofs of concept.

- Establish and champion agentic engineering practices, defining how engineers work with coding agents and building a shared library of skills, tools, and MCP servers.

- Automate the SDLC with agents, architecting agentic workflows from triage through implementation, review, testing, and remediation.

- Build the knowledge layers, giving agents and engineers accurate, current context through engineering and product knowledge layers.

- Make domains agent-ready, defining the standard for agent-ready domains and helping teams close gaps.

- Reimagine CI/CD for the AI era, redesigning the pipeline for the volume of agent-authored changes.

- Rethink the core developer experience, modernizing development environments, onboarding, documentation, and the internal developer portal.

- Govern for trust and cost, partnering with Security, Privacy, and Quality Engineering on agent permissions, sandboxing, and audit trails.

- Lead hands-on and through others, writing production code and reference implementations, and mentoring engineers as they build agentic skills.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- At least 10 years of software engineering experience, with at least 7 in software architecture or staff-plus technical leadership.

- Daily, hands-on use of AI coding agents, and a track record of turning that into practices or tools other engineers adopt.

- 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 and fluency in our stack (PHP, React, MySQL).

- Working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 (including for LLM Applications) and supply chain security.

- A record of influencing architects and senior engineers without direct authority.

- Sound judgment in ambiguous problem spaces and exceptional communication, including the ability to give and receive direct feedback.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.

- Generous leave policies, including 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- AI coding agents
- LLM systems
- CI/CD
- SaaS architecture
- PHP
- React
- MySQL
- OWASP Top 10
- supply chain security

### Nice to have
- agent tooling
- MCP servers
- open-source developer tools
- AI adoption
- productivity change
- regulated SaaS

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