Gather AI - Distributed Systems Architect
Requirements
• Distributed Systems: Mastery of performance-sensitive REST APIs, caching strategies, and core distributed systems concepts. • Distributed Systems: • REST APIs • Relational Data Systems: Expert-level PostgreSQL (upgrades, query tuning, replication tradeoffs, and schema evolution) and advanced SQL. • Relational Data Systems: • Cloud & Containers: Deep experience with Azure and/or AWS and production-grade Kubernetes/Docker. • Cloud & Containers: • Azure • Kubernetes/Docker • Backend Development: Strong production experience in Node.js and/or Python. • Backend Development: • Node.js • Python • Reliability & Security: Hands-on experience with Observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs), and security hygiene (IAM, secrets management). • Reliability & Security: • Observability • CI/CD • SRE fundamentals • Domain Expertise: Experience in logistics, warehouse systems, or robotics-adjacent platforms is a plus, but not required. We value your ability to apply sound architectural judgment to new problem spaces. • Domain Expertise: • Future Scale: If you have operated at a slightly smaller scale but can reason clearly about "what breaks next" (e.g., multi-regional architectures or advanced data governance), we will help you bridge that gap. • Future Scale: • Organizational Maturity: While we value experience driving org-wide standards, we don't expect perfection on day one. We look for the intent to elevate our shared practices as you build trust. • Organizational Maturity: • AI-Ready: At Gather, we are at the leading edge of both applied classical ML and next-gen LLM/VLM AI. Come prepared to work with the latest and greatest tooling. • AI-Ready:
Responsibilities
• Own Architecture: Align backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture. • Own Architecture: • Reflect Excellence: Replace "firefighting" with predictable execution. You will lead the effort to retire scalability and reliability debt, safely upgrade critical infrastructure, and reduce single-threaded dependencies. • Reflect Excellence: • Set Direction: Set the standard for engineering technical hygiene. You will drive high-level decisions on testing strategies, validation guardrails, and system design concerns that directly impact delivery speed and maintainability. • Set Direction: • Evolve Systems: Modernize and scale existing production systems by applying database-level strategies (schema evolution, replication tradeoffs) and platform primitives (orchestration, runtime constraints) as architectural tools. • Evolve Systems: • Mentor: Elevate the organization by establishing shared practices, aligning terminology, and mentoring senior talent across the engineering team. • Mentor: • Exhibit First-Principles Thinking: Establish a deep understanding of data systems, latency-sensitive services, and failure modes. • Exhibit First-Principles Thinking:
Benefits
• In this position, you won't just be writing code; you will be designing the future of a scaling organization with the autonomy to solve high-stakes problems.
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