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$219,000–$352,000/yr
Global

  • Define and drive the technical vision for scalable, secure, and high-performance platform architecture.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, setting best practices and standards across the engineering organization.
  • Lead research and prototyping of emerging technologies, and ensure reliability through automation and security best practices.

Distributed Systems Cloud Platforms Software Architecture CI/CD Infrastructure As Code

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$250,000–$290,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the engineering strategy and technical vision for Turnkey's Platform Engineering organization, spanning infrastructure, reliability, performance, and tooling.
  • Build, manage, and grow a high-performing engineering org, including hiring and developing engineering managers and senior ICs.
  • Partner closely with Product Engineering and company leadership to ensure platform investments align with customer and business needs.

Turnkey builds programmable guardrails that enable autonomy without sacrificing control for the autonomous economy. Founded by the team that scaled Coinbase Custody to $100M+ in ARR, we are a low-ego, high-agency team of experts in cryptography, security, and systems.

US

  • Define end-to-end architecture solutions aligned with business and technology objectives, creating roadmaps, technology strategies, and transformation plans.
  • Lead architecture design for applications, integrations, data platforms, cloud solutions, and digital ecosystems, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams, driving design reviews, architecture governance, and technical decision-making.

Bounteous is a global AI services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, we help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes.

EMEA

  • Lead architectural evolution by driving cross-team initiatives toward simplicity and scalability.
  • Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, and hands-on coaching in XP practices.
  • Champion sustainable quality by promoting TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery.

Prerender helps marketers create dynamic sites that are easily indexable by search engines. More than 100,000 websites globally trust Prerender to improve organic search ranking.

$200,000–$250,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own hands-on technical contribution, team leadership, and delivery accountability for the engineering organization.
  • Manage technical execution, architecture, engineering quality, and production reliability with a focus on security.
  • Partner cross-functionally with product, customer experience, and leadership to drive platform vision.

Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company that helps government agencies modernize administrative operations by replacing legacy systems with a unified platform. The team is small but growing, moves fast, and collaborates across on-shore and off-shore squads to deliver mission-critical software.

4w PTO

  • Define architecture blueprints, system designs, and roadmaps for complex platforms.
  • Design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems and integrations.
  • Support pre-sales, mentor engineers, and evaluate emerging technologies.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies through a fair and efficient application review process. It focuses on matching top-fitting candidates and sharing shortlists directly with employers, who manage all next steps.

$126,000–$174,000/yr
US

  • Define DevOps strategy and lead infrastructure architecture across multi-environment, multi-region cloud systems.
  • Architect and own scalable Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure as code, and DevSecOps implementation.
  • Drive platform reliability, performance SLAs, cost optimization, and lead complex migrations and AI/ML platform infrastructure.

Robots & Pencils is an applied AI engineering firm that designs and ships AI co-workers for enterprise operations. Founded in 2009, the company has delivery centers across Canada, the US, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, with teams averaging over 15 years of experience.

$250,000–$349,000/yr
Global

  • Set and refine the go-forward technical direction for CI, CD, Plan, and source code experiences, aligned with horizontal architectural initiatives.
  • Lead the hardest design decisions hands-on, writing code and prototypes, and drive convergence on shared patterns and paved paths.
  • Mentor senior engineers, raise the bar on design rigor, and contribute to the technical hiring bar for senior individual contributors.

GitLab provides the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, enabling organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. With over 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 as customers, GitLab fosters a high-performance culture driven by values and continuous knowledge exchange.

$220,000–$235,000/yr
United States Unlimited PTO

  • Define and execute a comprehensive platform security strategy aligned with business goals and risk priorities.
  • Embed security practices into software delivery, guiding teams through secure design and deployment.
  • Build and mentor high-performing security and engineering teams to enable secure innovation at scale.

Pax8 is a global AI and cloud marketplace connecting service providers with technology vendors for SMBs. It has over 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and growth.

Europe LATAM

  • Design end-to-end architectures for enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and distributed backend systems.
  • Provide architectural leadership to engineering teams, establishing best practices for system design, security, and reliability.
  • Collaborate with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Janea Systems (USA) is a dynamic team of software engineering specialists and solutions innovators providing high-impact software development services to Fortune 500 companies. The company offers a globally diverse team and a start-up work environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Global

  • Lead technical design and execution of major products and engineering initiatives end-to-end.
  • Stay hands-on coding, reviewing, debugging, and solving production issues daily.
  • Mentor engineers, set high engineering bar, and drive architecture decisions.

BJAK is a mobile-first insurance platform that makes insurance accessible online and is expanding into spending, saving, investing, and more across Southeast Asia. With over 20 nationalities working from offices and remotely, the team is mission-driven and focused on building next-generation financial products.

India

  • Architect, build, and scale secure software systems including microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
  • Lead design of distributed systems using Messaging, Search stores, and cloud storage solutions.
  • Mentor junior engineers, monitor system health, and optimize services with a DevOps mindset.

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss, with thousands of employees and a culture focused on ownership, collaboration, and challenge.

North America Canada

  • Define the technical strategy and architecture for next-generation developer platforms and AI-powered engineering productivity solutions.
  • Lead architecture across developer tooling, automated testing, and application lifecycle management platforms, designing scalable services.
  • Drive innovation in AI-enabled developer experiences, intelligent automation, and agentic workflows while mentoring senior engineers.

ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention, providing an AI platform that connects any AI, any data, and any workflow to help 85% of the Fortune 500 work smarter, faster, and better. The company fosters an AI-native culture where technology and talent combine, with a strong emphasis on innovation and employee empowerment.

$170,800–$244,000/yr
Global 16w maternity 16w paternity

  • Lead deep technical discovery across Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and AI/ML teams to understand AI governance and software supply chain requirements.
  • Design and execute structured PoCs/PoVs focused on policy enforcement, image integrity, SBOM visibility, and AI workload governance.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor and champion owner, partnering with Account Executives and Product teams to drive business value.

Docker is a developer tooling platform trusted by over 20 million monthly users and 20 billion container image pulls. They are a globally distributed, remote-first team building tools that define how software gets built and delivered.

$160,000–$200,000/yr
US

  • Lead and mentor the software architecture team, setting technical direction and standards.
  • Architect scalable, secure cloud and edge solutions, focusing on AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Drive platform modernization and evaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities.

Daktronics designs, engineers, manufactures, and supports digital LED display technology and audio systems for sports, businesses, and transportation. With a global presence, the company offers competitive compensation, meaningful benefits, and a collaborative culture focused on innovation and impact.

$124,750–$178,215/yr
US

  • Design, build, and maintain automation pipelines for workload packaging, validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring across AWS environments.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to operationalize workloads within a data lakehouse ecosystem and develop reusable infrastructure-as-code constructs using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
  • Ensure pipelines meet enterprise security, compliance, and scalability standards while mentoring junior engineers and contributing to DevSecOps practices.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies. The company uses AI to review applications and ensure fair, objective candidate evaluation, and operates in a distributed, fully remote environment.

United States Canada India Europe

  • Lead design and architecture of complex backend systems and distributed services.
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance and mentor engineering teams.
  • Own end-to-end delivery from feasibility to deployment and maintenance.

Juniper Square provides a unified platform for private markets, combining technology, data, and fund administration services. With over 1,000 employees and $350M+ in funding, the company culture is built on ambition, collaboration, and high standards.

$81,000–$88,000/yr
Canada Unlimited PTO

  • Design and implement scalable infrastructure using IaC and automation.
  • Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for frictionless releases.
  • Monitor system performance and lead incident response efforts.

Practice Better is an all-in-one platform for health and wellness practitioners to manage their businesses and client care. Founded in 2016, the remote-first company now serves tens of thousands of practitioners across 70+ countries and has a team of curious, driven, and empathetic people.

$9,000–$9,000/mo
Brazil

  • Define and drive long-term technical strategy and architectural direction across multiple enterprise domains.
  • Design and guide implementation of scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant software systems.
  • Mentor senior engineers and establish engineering standards and best practices.

Jobgether is an AI-powered job matching platform that connects candidates with hiring companies. It fosters a collaborative, inclusive, and global team environment, emphasizing innovation and continuous professional growth.

$220,000–$292,000/yr
US Unlimited PTO

  • Own the platform including GCP, Kubernetes, Temporal, GPU fleet, and deploy/rollback machinery.
  • Contribute to AI enablement substrate: GPU capacity, training/inference pipelines, and cost optimization.
  • Strengthen team practices through tooling, standards, tests, observability, and release processes.

Descript is building a simple, intuitive, fully-powered editing tool for video and audio — an editing tool built for the age of AI. They are a team of 150 backed by top investors like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, with a culture that values collaboration and serendipitous discovery.

$259,200–$388,800/yr

  • Architect and maintain cloud infrastructure for F5's AI security platform, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Design CI/CD pipelines, manage Kubernetes workloads, and implement serverless technologies.
  • Build comprehensive monitoring, security, and compliance practices across the B2B SaaS solution.

F5 is a global leader in application delivery and security, helping organizations create, secure, and run applications. With over 6,400 employees and 553 patents, F5 serves more than 23,000 customers across 170 countries and fosters a human-first, inclusive culture.