# Platform Architect at Embedding VC

> Onsite · United States · Staff · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Aembedding-vc%3A0d1f1884-d114-40e9-8f55-1baac1d2f7f4 (read 2026-11-07).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Embedding VC](https://alderhq.app/companies/embedding-vc)
- Location text: San Francisco Bay Area
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Onsite · United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco Bay Area")
- Posted: 2026-10-13 (25 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/embedding-vc/0d1f1884-d114-40e9-8f55-1baac1d2f7f4
- Skills listed (inferred): Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 789): p25 $177k, median $210k, p75 $250k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 1 ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### About the Role

The company operates 2000+ microservices deployed across dozens of compliance-regulated sites globally. They are transforming this into a modular financial cloud platform — organizing services into 50-100 independently versioned business modules, where each compliance site is a version set (a pinned, validated combination of module versions).

As Platform Architect, you will own the version engineering and module governance architecture — the system that ensures every deployment is reproducible, every change's blast radius is computable, and every site composition is a known-good state. This is fundamentally a build systems + dependency management + change propagation problem at financial-grade reliability.

### Key Responsibilities

Design the version set model: each site defined as a locked, tested combination of module versions (analogous to a Bazel workspace snapshot or Cargo.lock), with version compatibility matrices and automatic constraint solving

Architect reproducible build pipelines: any module at any version produces byte-identical artifacts regardless of when/where it's built; hermetic build environments, content-addressable artifact storage, SLSA Level 3+ provenance

Build and maintain the live dependency graph spanning 2000+ services: static analysis (code/API/schema) + runtime analysis (traffic-weighted call patterns), transitive dependency resolution with automatic conflict detection

Design the monorepo + package ownership governance model: clear module boundaries via DDD, CODEOWNERS enforcement, cross-module change protocols, module boundary enforcement tooling (lint rules, CI checks, architectural fitness functions)

Architect change impact analysis systems: given any PR, compute which modules/sites/tests are affected; selective test execution (run only dependency-graph-proven relevant tests); change confidence scoring (blast radius + coverage + stability → risk grade)

Design the GitOps-driven multi-site deployment model: site config repos declaring module versions + compliance parameters, automated deployment strategies (patch auto-deploy, minor with review, major with migration plan, security force-push)

Architect the four-layer testing framework: Module self-test → Platform compliance tests (parameterized by country) → Cross-module integration tests → Site-specific tests, with automated coverage enforcement that blocks deployments when gaps are detected

### Major Requirements

10+ years in large-scale distributed systems / platform infrastructure

Deep expertise in build systems and dependency management at scale: Bazel, Buck, Pants, Nx, or equivalent (1000+ packages)

Production experience with reproducible build engineering: content-addressable storage, hermetic builds, deterministic CI, artifact provenance (SLSA)

Experience building dependency graph tooling: static/runtime dependency analysis, impact computation, selective testing

Strong background in semantic versioning governance across large service fleets: version resolution, compatibility constraints, lockfile-style pinning

Experience with API contract evolution: protobuf/gRPC versioning, schema evolution strategies, contract testing

Experience with multi-region/multi-tenant platform architectures serving regulated workloads

Track record of migrating monolithic systems to modular architectures without business disruption

Preferred: Experience with Amazon's internal VersionSet / Brazil build system / Apollo deployment, or similar systems at Google (Blaze/Bazel), Meta (Buck/Configerator)

Preferred: Background at Stripe or Adyen — multi-country financial platform with compliance parameterization

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