Principal Architect, Platform

Position:  Principal Architect, Platform Location:  Remote Job Id:  361 # of Openings:  1 Role: Principal Architect, Platform   About interos.ai:  interos.ai is the standard for supply chain risk intelligence. Our Resilience platform, powered by an 11B buyer-supplier knowledge graph and 250M+ businesses scored across six risk factors, Cyber, Catastrophic, ESG, Restrictions, Geopolitical, and Finance, is run by Fortune 1000 market leaders and trusted by major Federal departments. As the only AI-powered SaaS platform that comprehensively assesses risk across these domains, interos.ai helps customers understand their exposure through our proprietary iScore® and assists both real-time and anticipatory opportunities to mitigate supply chain risk.  Our second-generation platform, iQ, is the industry's first fully productized predictive analytics platform for supply chain risk. iQ orchestrates ERP and Resilience platform insights to deliver AI-driven suggestions for supply chain risk management, helping organizations quantify financial exposure, stay ahead of geopolitical volatility and shifting tariffs, and communicate risk in the language CFOs use every day.  We are not afraid to challenge conventions, explore new ideas, and iterate quickly. Our work is meaningful, the problems are complex, and the pace requires focus, curiosity, and adaptability.  We are looking for people who are humble in how they collaborate, hungry to succeed, and smart in how they work. People who thrive here are energized by broad exposure, comfortable navigating ambiguity, open to feedback, proactive in taking ownership, and motivated by making a real impact.    About the Role: The Principal Architect, Platform is one of the most important hires interos.ai is making right now. Reporting directly to our SVP of Engineering, this role sits at the center of our next phase of growth, owning the architecture of the enterprise-grade scalable platform that will power interos.ai's product vision to drive proactive supply chain risk mitigation. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with organization-wide technical influence. You will own the architecture of our cloud-native platform from end to end, driving decisions on scalability, reliability, data architecture, API design, service decomposition, and developer experience. You will work closely with Engineering, Product, and Security leadership to translate business and product strategy into acoherent, future-proof technical foundation. This is not an advisory or governance role. You will design, prototype, and validate architectural decisions, and you will be the person others turn to when the hard technical decisions need to be made. If dealing with technical architecture and design decisions is something you live and breathe, and if you believe the best designs are the simplest ones, this role is for you.  What You'll Do Define and own the long-term technical architecture of the interos.ai platform, including microservices topology, data infrastructure, API contracts, event streaming, and platform scalability strategy  Own the architectural decision-making process across Engineering, reducing cycle time on design questions by establishing clear patterns, precedents, and guardrails that empower teams to move fast without going back to first principles every time  Lead architectural design reviews across Engineering teams, setting standards for system design, inter-service communication, data modeling, and platform extensibility  Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate product roadmap into architectural requirements, identifying technical risk, sequencing trade-offs, and enabling teams to move with speed and confidence  Design and champion platform capabilities that are foundational to multiple product areas, including multi-tenancy, data pipeline...