Staff Architect

6sense•San Francisco, CA

14h•$209,496 - $307,261•Remote

About The Position

Our Mission: Our mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential. Our People: People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in deﬁning the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career. Staff Architect Role 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

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.
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.
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.
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.
Drive patterns for tenant isolation, tenant-aware configuration, partitioning strategy, and scalable onboarding.
Identify and mitigate risks around compliance, data integrity, and access control.
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).
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.

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