Principal Software Architect - Emerging Technologies

• Architecture of systems at scale with accountability for outcomes. Distributed systems, CI/CD, and developer platforms where your design decisions carried significant operational consequence.
• Deep CI/CD and developer-platform expertise. You have built pipelines that other engineers depend on — testing, staged deployment, rollback, and observability — with demonstrated reliability and performance.
• Hands-on experience operating LLM agents in production paths, including orchestration, tool use, sandboxing, evaluation, and the failure modes that emerge at volume.
• Security-architecture expertise. Least-privilege design, secrets management, network boundary enforcement, and threat modeling, with work that withstands both audit and adversarial review.
• A track record of setting standards adopted by others. A branching model, review protocol, or platform pattern in active use because you defined it.
• The ability to serve as an accountability gate without becoming a bottleneck. You design review tooling and conventions that maintain high signal and low latency.

• High-assurance security architecture is strongly preferred for this role specifically. Demonstrated experience designing and defending a security boundary within FedRAMP, FedRAMP High, defense, financial services, or healthcare, including direct experience with formal audit. Candidates without experience operating inside an audited boundary are unlikely to be effective setting the standard for one.
• NIST 800-53 Rev 5 fluency, including the ability to map controls to engineering guardrails directly.
• AWS Bedrock or GovCloud experience maintaining inference and data within a compliance boundary.
• Experience with eval-driven development or generator-verifier architectures at a frontier-model or leading platform organization.

Indicators of a strong fit

• You regard making autonomy safe and auditable as the central technical problem, and it is the problem you want to own.
• You hold strong, evidence-based positions on pipeline reliability and operational resilience.
• You prefer validation against evaluation suites to subjective assessment of a pull request.
• You read NIST 800-53 as an engineering specification rather than as administrative overhead.
• You are prepared to own the standard the organization builds on and accept the accountability that entails.

Indicators this role is not a fit

• You prefer feature development to platform and standards work. This role’s leverage is deliberately indirect.
• You consider compliance to be administrative work to delegate. Here it is architecture you own.
• You favor delivery speed over demonstrable safety when the two conflict. Within a FedRAMP boundary, demonstrable safety takes precedence.
• You expect autonomy to mean the absence of review. The review gate is the core deliverable and is yours to safeguard.
• You are uncomfortable declining a request for greater autonomy than a workstream’s measured reliability supports.

Don’t have all the skills/experience mentioned above?

At Granicus, we are trying to build diverse, inclusive teams.

We do not have degree requirements for most of our roles.

If you don’t meet every requirement above but are excited to learn more, we encourage you to apply.

We might just be able to find another role that could be a perfect fit!

• Responsible for Granicus information security by appropriately preserving the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) of Granicus information assets in accordance with the company's information security program.
• Responsible for ensuring the data privacy of our employees and customers, their data, as well as taking all required privacy training in a timely manner, in accordance with company policies.

• We are a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Armenia, Australia, and New Zealand.

• At Granicus, we are building a transparent, inclusive, and safe space for everyone who wants to be a part of our journey.
• A few culture highlights include – Employee Resource Groups to encourage diverse voices
• Coffee with Mark sessions – Our employees get to interact with our CEO on very important and sometimes difficult issues ranging from mental health to work-life balance and current affairs.
• Microsoft Teams communities focused on wellness, art, furbabies, family, parenting, and more.
• We bring in special guests from time to time to discuss issues that impact our employee population

• We are proud to serve dynamic organizations around the globe that use our digital solutions to make the world a better place — quite literally. We have so many powerful success stories that illustrate how our solutions are impacting the world. See more of our impact here .

Flexibility & Balance Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to rest, recharge, and live your life. Company-Wide Wellbeing Days – Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health. Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment. Health & Wellness Multiple Health Plan Options – Including a 100% employer-paid plan. Employer HSA Contributions – When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan. Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way. On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools. Family & Future Paid Parental Leave – For both birthing and non-birthing parents. Traditional & Roth 401(k) – With a generous company match. Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind. Growth & Recognition Online Learning Platforms – Fuel your professional development. Competitive Salary & Bonuses – Your contributions are valued and rewarded. Equal Opportunity Employer: Granicus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities. All qualified applicants and employees will be considered for employment and advancement without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, physical or mental disability, age, genetic information, sexual or affectional orientation, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.

• Flexible Time Off – Take the time you need to rest, recharge, and live your life. Company-Wide Wellbeing Days – Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health. Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment.
• Company-Wide Wellbeing Days – Paid days off to unplug and focus on your mental health. Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment.
• Work From Home Reimbursement – Support a productive home office environment.
• Multiple Health Plan Options – Including a 100% employer-paid plan. Employer HSA Contributions – When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan. Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way. On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
• Employer HSA Contributions – When enrolled in a High-Deductible Health Plan. Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way. On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
• Fitness Reimbursement Program – Stay active, your way. On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
• On-Demand Mental Health Support – Access to Headspace and other wellness tools.
• Paid Parental Leave – For both birthing and non-birthing parents. Traditional & Roth 401(k) – With a generous company match. Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.
• Traditional & Roth 401(k) – With a generous company match. Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.
• Life & AD&D Insurance – 100% employer-paid coverage for peace of mind.
• Online Learning Platforms – Fuel your professional development. Competitive Salary & Bonuses – Your contributions are valued and rewarded.
• Competitive Salary & Bonuses – Your contributions are valued and rewarded.