Principal Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES Applies extensive knowledge of theories, practices and design matters. Works on issues that impact program success or addresses future concepts and products. Implementation of solutions requires a longer-term view which impacts strategic goals and objectives spanning several functions. Exercise a wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments. Knowledge with broadcast production or video content management systems Knowledge of media management strategies and distribution workflows Lead and contributes to development of company objectives across and principles to achieve goals Deep understanding of AWS/Azure services and products Provide feasibility reviews for potential new projects, including development effort estimates Strong understanding of the C4 model and traditional design artifacts Work with Engineering and Quality Assurance to identify and address reported issues quickly and effectively Build and maintain scalable backend microservices using Python and FastAPI, deployed as varying serverless infrastructure. Develop tools, constraints (guardrails), and deterministic functions that our AI agents use to edit visual assets. Integrate models on owned infrastructure for inference and integrate third-party AI endpoints. Implement complex distributed workflows for high-volume job orchestration and dispatching (e.g. EventBridge, queues, DynamoDB streams). Terraform contributions to provision and mange cloud resources safely and effectively across multiple environments. Contribute to our modern backend orchestration or modern web frontends. Write robust unit and end-to-end tests to ensure the stability of both standard APIs and AI agent outputs, ensuring smooth deployments. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong SDLC and version control expertise Advanced Python proficiency with hands-on AWS/Azure/GCP deployment and operations experience Proven experience integrati