Principal Architect, AI-Native Developer Experience

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.