SecurityScorecard
cybersecurity
ChiefArchitect
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“Chief Architect at SecurityScorecard. Skills: architectural direction for platform, customer migration, agentic product features, backend distributed systems, data flows, AI-native world architecture. Set and maintain architectural direction across the platform, customer migration, and agentic product features. Prototype and validate architectural decisions before committing teams at scale”
What You'll Achieve.
scaling a new platform already in production; migrating customers off our legacy system; building the architectural foundation for agentic features; reshaping engineering for an AI-native world; customers should finish the process with a clear sense of what they gained; define how agentic features are designed, integrated, and delivered at production scale; defining new patterns for how engineers design, review, and iterate in an AI-native workflow; building the organizational judgment to apply these capabilities well; measurably elevate technical quality across the org
Industry & Context.
find and fix cybersecurity risks; reasoning across a stack; making principled trade-offs
no immigration sponsorship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12–15+ years of software engineering, significant time in architectural leadership, Deep expertise in backend architecture, distributed systems, data flows at production scale, Demonstrated experience scaling platforms already in production, Track record owning large-scale data and customer migrations with smooth end-user outcomes, experience designing REST APIs, familiarity with gRPC, Enough breadth to lead and evaluate a Front-end Architect and AI Architect without owning those domains directly, Ability to communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers, Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture
Nice to Have
Hands-on experience with AI or agentic systems (agent orchestration, LLM integration, or equivalent), Event-driven architecture experience (Kafka, RabbitMQ), GraphQL familiarity, Experience leading AI-assisted development adoption across an engineering org, Cybersecurity industry background, Experience with high-performance C++ or Rust systems
What You'll Do.
Set and maintain architectural direction across the platform
and agentic product features
Prototype and validate architectural decisions before committing teams at scale
Partner with the CTO on technical strategy and engineering roadmap
Manage and develop the Front-end Architect and AI Architect
Define and maintain system-wide standards
Mentor senior and staff engineers and measurably elevate technical quality across the org
Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to executives and customers
Develop and maintain a 12–24 month technical roadmap spanning platform infrastructure
and data architecture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work closely with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams; in close partnership with your AI Architect direct report; ensuring their work fits cohesively within the overall architecture; communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to executives and customers
Communication Scope
communicate complex architectural decisions clearly to executives and customers
Full Job Description
About SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard's patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace," by Crain's NY as a "Best Places to Work in NYC," and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2023 and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023. SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody's, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital. About the Role SecurityScorecard is hiring a Chief Architect at a defining moment: we're scaling a new platform already in production, migrating customers off our legacy system, building the architectural foundation for agentic features, and reshaping engineering for an AI-native world. This is an executive role reporting to the CTO, with a Front-end Architect and AI Architect as direct reports. The core is backend architecture; distributed systems, data flows, and the structural decisions that let a large engineering organization move with confidence. You'll spend most of your time paving the architectural path forward, prototyping to validate decisions, and keeping teams aligned on what they're building and why. Three Core Pillars Platform Direction and Customer Migration Own the architectural direction for both the evolvi
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