Principal Architect

Our Mission:

6sense's mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in defining the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Architect with 12+ years of experience who will own and drive the end-to-end architecture of large-scale, distributed systems. This role deeply focuses on system architecture, technical strategy, and long-term platform evolution. As a Principal Architect, you will work closely with engineering leadership, product, and business stakeholders to define architectural vision, ensure technical excellence, and enable teams to build scalable, resilient, and future-ready systems.

Key Responsibilities

Own the overall system architecture across multiple domains, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance. Define and drive long-term architectural vision and technical roadmap aligned with business goals. Design and review high-level system designs, data flows, integration patterns, and technology choices. Act as a technical authority for complex architectural decisions, trade-offs, and design reviews. Partner with Principal Engineers,Engineering Managers, and Product Managers to translate business requirements into robust architectural solutions. Establish and evolve architecture standards, design principles, and best practices across teams. Identify architectural risks and proactively drive mitigation strategies. Enable teams by providing hands-on guidance, reference architectures, and design frameworks (not day-to-day coding ownership). Drive adoption of modern architectures including microservices, event-driven systems, cloud-native patterns, and data platforms. Evaluate emerging technologies and tools, and guide adoption where they create long-term value. Support scale-related initiatives such as performance optimization, system resiliency, cost optimization, and platform modernization. Play a key role in technical leadership forums, architecture councils, and senior technical reviews. Contribute to hiring, mentoring senior engineers, and shaping the overall engineering culture.