Lead Architect / Principal Engineer

The role

You will own the overall technical architecture of the platform and set the long-term vision. You will drive architectural decisions across multiple teams and mentor senior and staff engineers.

What you will do

• Own the overall technical architecture of the platform
• Drive architectural decisions across multiple teams and systems
• Identify systemic engineering problems early and lead solutions
• Partner with engineering leads to design and review critical systems
• Champion and standardize engineering patterns, tooling, and infrastructure best practices
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption
• Mentor and develop senior and staff engineers
• Represent engineering architecture in cross-functional discussions
• Contribute to hiring decisions

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience
• Expert-level Go
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems design, microservices, and large-scale service architectures
• Mastery of Docker and Kubernetes
• Deep Linux/Unix expertise
• Proven ability to make irreversible architectural decisions thoughtfully
• Strong communicator
• Experience leading through influence, not authority
• Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps best practices

Nice to have

• Experience with industrial IoT, edge computing, or real-time data pipelines (MQTT, NATS, OPC-UA)
• Published Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), technical writing, or open source contributions
• Background in platform engineering, developer productivity, or DevSecOps
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategies
• Time at a high-growth startup

About the company

Litmus is a growth-stage software company helping manufacturers access, structure, and use real-time data from machines, systems, and sensors at the edge. The platform sits at the intersection of edge computing, AI, and industrial operations.