Ema

AI Platform

PrincipalArchitect

Bengaluru, India FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Architect at Ema. Skills: Distributed systems, Cloud architecture, AI/ML infrastructure, Team leadership. Build and lead engineering organization. Set technical standard”

What You'll Achieve.

10x gains in workforce efficiency; Ship real systems; Run real business processes at scale; Attract, mentor, develop, and retain top-tier engineering talent; Keep the team shipping fast without compromising reliability; Saving $1M+ annually

Industry & Context.

AI Platform
Problems you'll solve

High-stakes architectural decisions; Build vs. buy; Migration strategies; Technology bets

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

12+ years of software engineering experience, 4+ years leading platform or infrastructure teams of 8+ engineers, Deep, hands-on expertise in distributed systems, Production experience with container orchestration, Kubernetes, Microservices architecture, GCP, AWS, Azure, Go programming ability, Experience building internal platforms from scratch, Expertise in database internals and performance tuning, SQL, NoSQL, Graph data, Vector data, CAP theorem trade-offs, Proven ability to hire, develop, and retain high-caliber engineers

Nice to Have

Experience building infrastructure for AI/ML workloads, Model serving, GPU scheduling, Training pipelines, Inference optimization, Vector databases, Embedding pipelines, RAG architectures, LLM orchestration frameworks, Operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, Real-time data streaming, Kafka, Pulsar, Flink, Event-driven architecture, Large-scale cloud cost optimization initiatives

What You'll Do.

Build and lead engineering organization

Set technical standard

Demonstrate execution mindset

Collaborate with Head of Engineering

Architect product roadmap

Drive product roadmap

develop senior engineers

Establish engineering standards

Make architectural decisions

Own architectural outcomes

Drive cross-functional alignment

Own production health

Establish engineering practices

Participate in executive reviews

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate directly with the Head of Engineering and co-founders; Drive cross-functional alignment with product, ML/AI research, and go-to-market teams

Full Job Description

ABOUT EMA Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver and Bangalore, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. WHO WE ARE Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema, the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs. We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver and Bangalore, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale. THE ROLE As a Principle Architect at Ema, you will build and lead a high-performance engineering organization — setting the technical standard for reliability and demonstrating a strong execution mindset. You will collaborate directly with the Head of Engineering and co-founders to architect and drive the product roadmap from an engineering standpoint. We are looking f

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