Red Cell Partners is building and investing in technology-led companies to address pressing national problems in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Trase Systems, a Red Cell company, aims to simplify AI deployment and management for enterprises, bridging the "last mile" of AI adoption to drive efficiency and cost savings.
Requirements
- 10-15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native platforms.
- Proven experience as a Principal/Staff Engineer or Senior Architect, setting technical direction and making high-impact architectural decisions across multiple teams.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Typescript, with a strong ability to write clean, maintainable code.
- Expertise in modern cloud architecture (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform).
- Deep knowledge of scalable architectures, API design (REST, gRPC), and event-driven systems.
- A systems-thinking approach to problem-solving and making strategic trade-offs (performance, cost, security).
- Significant plus: Experience with infrastructure for ML Ops (model training, deployment, monitoring).
Responsibilities
- Define and own the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap, aligning it with business and product strategy.
- Drive the selection and governance of foundational technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
- Future-proof the platform by anticipating technical challenges and industry trends.
- Establish and enforce engineering-wide best practices for architecture, code, and design.
- Drive initiatives to reduce technical debt and enhance platform scalability, security, performance, and observability.
- Serve as the decision-maker on critical system designs, ensuring architectural cohesion across teams.
- Lead hands-on by prototyping solutions and solving the most complex technical challenges.
Other
- Mentor senior engineers and tech leads, elevating the team's architectural and problem-solving skills.
- Cultivate a culture of technical excellence and innovation across the engineering organization.
- Translate ambiguous business needs into clear technical strategies by partnering with executive, product, and enterprise leaders.
- Communicate complex architectural decisions to all stakeholders to build consensus and drive company-wide alignment.
- Some travel is required.
