Senior Staff Software Engineer (AI)

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Juniper Square seeks a senior technical leader to own the architecture and evolution of its AI‑enabled platform. You will design, build, and scale cloud‑native, multi‑tenant systems that support $300B+ of private‑market assets while mentoring engineers and driving operational excellence.

Role Snapshot

• Lead platform and AI infrastructure architecture
• Define standards for services, APIs, and multi‑tenancy
• Mentor senior engineers and shape engineering culture
• Drive reliability, performance, and cost‑efficiency
• Partner with product, security, and executive stakeholders
• Scale systems for $100B+ AUM private‑equity customers

Must-Have Requirements

• Distributed systems fundamentals
• Cloud‑native platform expertise (Kubernetes, containers, service mesh, serverless)
• Python, Go, or Java programming
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)
• Event‑driven streaming (Kafka or similar)
• CI/CD pipeline experience
• Observability and SRE practices
• Production‑scale cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Infrastructure security, multi‑tenancy, compliance
• Developer platform and internal tooling
• distributed systems architecture
• cloud‑native platform engineering
• high‑availability multi‑tenant services
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Upmarket SaaS platform experience
• Fintech or private‑markets domain knowledge
• AI/LLM workload infrastructure experience
• Cloud cost optimization expertise
• Scaling PostgreSQL under high concurrency
• upmarket SaaS for large institutions
• private‑markets / fintech domain
• AI/LLM workload infrastructure

Work Setup

• Location: Americas (USA or Canada), United States
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: United States, Canada
• Travel: Some travel to leadership meetups, team offsites, and customer sites
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range details
• Relocation
• Security clearance
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Define and own end‑to‑end systems architecture across services, infrastructure, and developer platform
• Design scalable, fault‑tolerant distributed systems, including event‑driven and asynchronous workflows
• Build and maintain a paved‑road cloud platform with CI/CD, self‑service tooling, and multi‑tenant security
• Create reusable platform primitives and internal APIs for product teams
• Partner with AI workflow, product, and security teams to support inference pipelines and agentic workloads
• Architect for enterprise‑scale data volumes and integration surfaces required by $100B+ AUM managers
• Lead incident response, capacity planning, and cost‑optimization initiatives
• Mentor senior engineers and champion a culture of operational excellence

Good Fit If You Have

• Experience taking SaaS platforms upmarket to serve large institutional customers
• Background in private‑markets, fund accounting, or fintech systems
• Hands‑on work with AI/LLM inference serving, GPU scheduling, or evaluation pipelines