Principal Software Architect - Emerging Technologies
Granicus, LLC20 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$175k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own generator-verifier architecture in which agents generate changes and automated tests, evaluation suites, SAST/DAST, and policy checks validate them.
- Define agent orchestration patterns covering task decomposition, dispatch, sandboxing, reassembly, secure state, and credential handling.
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines that triage, test, and route high volumes of autonomous agent pull requests while preserving efficient human review.
- Establish eval-driven development with measurable acceptance criteria and evaluation-suite validation.
- Own the security boundary through in-VPC AWS Bedrock inference, least-privilege permissions, sandboxing, encrypted credential storage, and NIST control mappings.
- Serve as the final human accountability gate and ensure agent-generated code receives senior human review before production deployment.
- Define engineering standards for branching, review protocols, evaluation conventions, staged deployment, and graduated autonomy.
- Maintain the reference implementation and standards used by delivery teams.
Requirements
- Experience architecting systems at scale with accountability for outcomes.
- Deep experience with distributed systems, CI/CD, developer platforms, testing, staged deployment, rollback, observability, reliability, and performance.
- Hands-on experience operating LLM agents in production, including orchestration, tool use, sandboxing, evaluation, and high-volume failure modes.
- Security architecture expertise in least-privilege design, secrets management, network-boundary enforcement, and threat modeling.
- A track record of defining branching models, review protocols, or platform patterns adopted by other engineers.
- Preferred experience designing and defending security boundaries in FedRAMP, FedRAMP High, defense, financial-services, or healthcare environments with formal audits.
- NIST 800-53 Rev. 5 fluency and the ability to map controls directly to engineering guardrails.
- AWS Bedrock or GovCloud experience maintaining inference and data within a compliance boundary.
- Experience with eval-driven development or generator-verifier architectures at a frontier-model or leading platform organization.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with a globally distributed workforce.
- Flexible time off, company-wide wellbeing days, and work-from-home reimbursement.
- Multiple health plan options, including a 100% employer-paid plan, employer HSA contributions, fitness reimbursement, and Headspace or other mental-health support.
- Paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
- Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with a company match.
- 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance.
- Online learning platforms, employee resource groups, and other professional-development and community programs.
About Granicus, LLC
Granicus builds cloud software used by public-sector agencies to run digital communication, websites, agenda/meeting management, records, and service workflows. It sells SaaS subscriptions and implementation services to federal, state, and local governments, serving 5,500+ agencies and a 300M-subscriber outreach network. Headquartered in Denver, it is privately held under Vista Equity Partners.