We are seeking a Senior Software Architect to join our core R&D team. You will help define and evolve the technical foundation of our platform as we scale. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, product, and emerging AI capabilities where you’ll design systems that are not only reliable and scalable, but also ready to leverage the next generation of AI-driven tooling.
You’ll act as a senior individual contributor and technical leader, partnering across teams to shape architecture, guide critical decisions, and turn complex ideas into practical, production-ready systems.
Responsibilities:
Own and evolve system architecture across our platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability
Partner closely with engineering and product teams to design systems that balance speed of delivery with long-term flexibility
Lead high-impact technical decisions, including trade-offs across performance, cost, and complexity
Translate ambiguous business or product needs into clear technical approaches and system designs
Identify architectural gaps, technical debt, and scaling bottlenecks, and drive solutions proactively
Act as a technical mentor and thought partner across teams
AI & Emerging Technology Focus:
Explore, evaluate, and apply AI tools, frameworks, and workflows to improve both our product and internal development velocity
Stay current with advancements in AI development and help the team adopt them pragmatically
Contribute to building a culture of curiosity and experimentation around AI across the organization
Adopt and drive an AI-first approach to software development cycle, design principals and product capabilities
Requirements:
20+ years of software engineering experience, with deep experience in system design and architecture
Proven track record designing and evolving distributed or scalable systems
Broad experience in AWS cloud architecture, with the ability to design and implement complex data plane and control plane systems
Comfortable going deep technically while influencing broadly
Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business stakeholders
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly
Experience with data pipelines, highly scalable systems, cloud native architectures and services
Experience in Cyber Security is a bonus
Skills Required
- 20+ years of software engineering experience
- Deep experience in system design and architecture
- Experience in AWS cloud architecture
- Proven track record designing distributed/scalable systems
- Experience with data pipelines and cloud native architectures
- Strong communication skills
- Experience in Cyber Security
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What We Do
7AI is the first agentic security platform that harnesses the speed, swarming capabilities, and power of AI to finally give defenders the advantage over evolving threats. The 7AI Agentic Security Platform makes decisions and acts autonomously to achieve specific cybersecurity goals without human intervention. Founded by world-renowned cybersecurity experts Lior Div and Yonatan Striem Amit and backed by Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, and Spark Capital, 7AI is leading the agentic security revolution.
Why Work With Us
7AI has a very builder-oriented culture - high ownership, fast-moving, and low ego. People care more about solving hard problems well than hierarchy or politics. It’s collaborative, thoughtful, and grounded, with a strong focus on substance over hype.
