Gather AI is pioneering a new era of warehouse intelligence and reshaping the global supply chain. As a Distributed Systems Architect, you will serve as the technical anchor for the engineering organization, evolving mature, complex SaaS systems, setting technical direction and architecture, and ensuring platforms remain reliable and perform as we scale. You will design, evaluate, and guide decisions across the entire stack—from database internals to distributed service patterns.
What You'll Do
- Align backend, frontend, platform, and infrastructure decisions into a coherent, enterprise-grade architecture.
- Lead the effort to retire scalability and reliability debt, safely upgrade critical infrastructure, and reduce single-threaded dependencies.
- Drive high-level decisions on testing strategies, validation guardrails, and system design concerns that impact delivery speed and maintainability.
- Modernize and scale existing production systems by applying database-level strategies and platform primitives as architectural tools.
- Elevate the organization by establishing shared practices, aligning terminology, and mentoring senior talent across the engineering team.
- Establish a deep understanding of data systems, latency-sensitive services, and failure modes.
What We're Looking For
- Mastery of performance-sensitive REST APIs, caching strategies, and core distributed systems concepts.
- Expert-level PostgreSQL (upgrades, query tuning, replication tradeoffs, and schema evolution) and advanced SQL.
- Deep experience with Azure and/or AWS and production-grade Kubernetes/Docker.
- Strong production experience in Node.js and/or Python.
- Hands-on experience with Observability (logs, metrics, traces), CI/CD, SRE fundamentals (SLIs/SLOs), and security hygiene (IAM, secrets management).
Nice to Have
- Experience in logistics, warehouse systems, or robotics-adjacent platforms.
- Ability to reason clearly about multi-regional architectures or advanced data governance.
- Experience driving org-wide standards and intent to elevate shared practices.
- Experience with applied classical ML and next-gen LLM/VLM AI.
Technical Stack
- REST APIs
- PostgreSQL, SQL
- Azure, AWS
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Node.js, Python
- Observability, CI/CD
Gather AI is an equal opportunity employer.
