Staff Architect

6sense • San Francisco, CA

1d • $209,496 - $307,261 • Remote

About The Position

Staff Architect Rol e Overview We’re looking for a Staff Architect to lead architecture and technical delivery for a major domain within 6sense’s Revenue Intelligence platform (e.g., real-time signals ingestion & processing, ML inference/serving, multi-tenant data isolation, or GTM integrations & activation). This is a senior individual contributor role focused on high-leverage system design + execution leadership : driving architecture for complex initiatives, partnering closely with engineering and product leaders, and ensuring solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and operable. You will be hands-on where it matters —through reference implementations, prototypes, and deep technical guidance that helps teams ship.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years in software engineering with significant focus on distributed systems and system design
• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering data-intensive, distributed, cloud-based systems .
• Strong understanding of: Distributed systems, reliability, scalability, fault tolerance Microservices/event-driven architectures API design, data modeling, integration patterns Observability and operability (metrics/logging/tracing, incident learnings)
• Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Ability to influence across teams through clear communication, strong design rationale, and pragmatic decision-making.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in B2B SaaS, MarTech/AdTech/Revenue Tech, or similar data-heavy product environments.
• Experience with streaming/batch data systems (Kafka/Flink/Spark or equivalents).
• Familiarity with OLAP/analytics stores (ClickHouse/Redshift/BigQuery/Druid/Trino, etc.).
• Familiarity with ML platform concepts (feature pipelines, inference patterns, monitoring), even if not a full-time ML practitioner.
• Experience designing multi-tenant data and service architectures.

Responsibilities

• Domain Architecture Ownership Own the architecture for a core domain of the platform, ensuring it meets scalability, reliability, security, and performance requirements. Drive end-to-end design for cross-service initiatives: clarify requirements, propose options, lead tradeoffs, and align stakeholders. Produce high-quality design artifacts (HLDs, LLDs, data flow diagrams, API contracts) and lead design reviews.
• Delivery Enablement (Hands-on Leadership) Provide hands-on technical leadership through reference implementations , prototypes/POCs, and critical-path contributions when needed. Partner with engineering teams to translate architecture into executable plans (milestones, risks, dependencies, rollout strategy). Help teams build “operable” systems: instrumentation, alerting, runbooks, dashboards, and failure-mode thinking.
• Data & Signal Processing (if domain-aligned) Lead architecture for ingestion/enrichment pipelines handling large-scale behavioral events and third-party data. Drive improvements to data quality, lineage, observability, and freshness SLAs.
• AI/ML Serving (if domain-aligned) Guide architecture for feature pipelines and inference serving (batch and online), model monitoring, experimentation, and safe rollouts. Partner with data science and ML engineering to productionize reliable, scalable ML systems.
• Multi-Tenant & Platform Foundations (if domain-aligned) Drive patterns for tenant isolation, tenant-aware configuration, partitioning strategy, and scalable onboarding. Identify and mitigate risks around compliance, data integrity, and access control.
• Integration & Activation Lead architecture for integrations with CRM/MAP/GTM tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Outreach, etc.). Establish patterns for reliable data activation (idempotency, retries, backfills, versioning, and extensibility).
• Engineering Excellence & Mentorship Raise the bar through design reviews, technical mentorship, and knowledge-sharing. Contribute to architecture standards and reusable patterns; participate in architecture forums/councils. Identify architectural risks early and drive mitigation plans.

Benefits

• Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options.
• We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our offices.
• We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform.
• Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth.
• From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level