Principal Software Architect

This is an in office position M-F, 9-6. We are open to candidates in the area or that would like to move to the SF area

Verita AI is building a job matching platform that connects domain experts with high-paying data training opportunities at the world's leading AI labs. Think of it as a job marketplace built specifically for the people powering frontier AI: experts in engineering, creativity, finance, and beyond, matched directly with the training opportunities that need their expertise most.

Our platform makes the experience of contributing to AI training feel intuitive, rewarding, and even fun. Built-in leaderboards, gamification, and progression systems turn high-quality work into recognition and growth.

Our matching engine routes experts to the projects best suited to their skills, and our talent management tooling measures, ranks, and rewards performance  recently raised a $6 million seed round led by Kindred Ventures.

We are looking for a principal software architect to own systems architecture across Verita's core platform: our talent marketplace, annotation and evaluation systems, AI interviewing, expert routing, and analytics, built to support 100,000+ experts. This person will own the platform architecture, the core domain model, durable interfaces, and the security and reliability standards the engineering team builds on. This is a hands-on principal IC role: you will write code, review critical changes, and lead migrations while product delivery continues.

• 10+ years of experience building production software; evidence of systems-level impact matters more than a precise year count
• Python with Django or FastAPI, PostgreSQL, background jobs, queues, and distributed workflows
• Production AWS, Terraform, IAM, SSO and OIDC, observability, and safe deployment practices
• Versioned APIs and events, tenancy, idempotency, and safe schema evolution
• A live platform you designed and evolved, with migrations you led and operational results you can explain

• Experience designing marketplace, financial, or time-tracking data models (state machines, audit trails, backwards-compatible change)
• Experience exposing services through MCP or other agent-facing interfaces

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical mindset with a bias toward data-driven decision-making
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and structuring problems from scratch
• Equity
• Bonus
• Health Insurance Stipend

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for building, iterating, and scaling
• Comfortable with gritty execution work—these are hands-on, operationally intensive roles
• Obsessed with quality, attention to detail, and delivering exceptional client experiences
• Excited by the opportunity to shape the infrastructure behind frontier AI development

• Work directly with researchers and engineers at the world's most advanced AI labs
• Define the architecture behind a consumer platform used by thousands of experts every day
• Opportunity to grow into the company's most senior technical leadership role as the team and company scale

If this sounds like the kind of environment in which you would thrive, we would love to meet you.

You will join a team operating at the intersection of consumer products, expert communities, and frontier AI research. The problems you work on will directly influence the development of the next generation of AI systems.

This is a rare opportunity to design a platform from the ground up, work with world-class clients, and play a defining role in shaping how the world's leading experts contribute to AI development.

If you are energized by operational challenges, love building systems that scale, and want to be at the center of one of the most exciting frontiers in technology, we would love to hear from you.