LI-COR
Principal System Architect
Hands-on principal architect who sets technical direction for LI-COR Environmental's connected instruments and cloud platforms, owning device-to-cloud architecture across AWS, APIs, event-driven data pipelines, security, and observability. Stays hands-on in backend design and code, leads architecture reviews, and mentors engineers.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- USA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- 12+ years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform
- Deep experience with AWS or comparable public cloud: compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, IAM, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language
- Experience with event-driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and ability to lead through influence
Nice to have
- Master's degree
- Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics
- Experience with regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control
- Experience with platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models
- Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise
Full description
Primary Work Location
Lincoln, NE or Remote in the U.S.
Overview
The Principal System Architect provides technical direction and hands-on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable. The architect partners with engineering, product, science, quality, IT and DevOps, and external technology partners to turn complex needs into practical technical direction.
Professional Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience. A master's degree is preferred.
Qualifications
- Typically 12 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.
- Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
- Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.
Preferred Experience
- Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.
- Regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.
- Platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.
- Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.