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Heartflow

Staff System Architect

Heartflow
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Base Salary

$200k - $275k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the system architecture strategy impacting multiple engineering teams.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to translate organizational goals into architectural roadmaps.
  • Define, enforce, and evolve engineering best practices and architecture patterns.
  • Establish and govern security architecture standards across the platform.
  • Make cross-cutting architectural decisions balancing performance, security, and scalability.
  • Identify technology risks and dependencies early to establish mitigation plans.
  • Mentor and develop senior and staff engineers.
  • Lead security architecture reviews and compliance strategy.
  • Define and oversee authentication and authorization architecture.
  • Represent engineering architecture in cross-functional leadership forums.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of relevant industry experience in senior or staff-level roles.
  • Deep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems.
  • Strong expertise in distributed systems and microservices architecture.
  • Proven experience setting technical vision and architectural standards.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies and project management tools.
  • Strong understanding of web and OWASP security best practices.
  • Experience with DevOps best practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with FDA regulations and compliance requirements for medical software.
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.