Principal Architect

Position Overview

Storable is seeking a Principal Architect to serve as a senior technical leader within our multi-vertical SaaS organization. Reporting to executive engineering leadership this role is responsible for defining and stewarding the long-term architectural vision across our product portfolio ensuring our systems evolve in a scalable cohesive and durable manner.

The Principal Architect will drive clarity in complex environments guides high-impact design decisions and elevates architectural thinking across the organization.

Scope and Strategic Impact

The Principal Architect operates at the intersection of technology product strategy and organizational design. Key areas of impact include:

• Defining and stewarding the architectural vision across all SaaS product verticals ensuring long-term coherence and adaptability.
• Ensuring architectural decisions support scalability resilience maintainability and sustained business growth.
• Influencing technical direction across diverse technology stacksharmonizing where it creates value preserving autonomy where it drives innovation.
• Serving as a trusted advisor to executive and engineering leadership on strategic technology investments build-versus-buy decisions and technical tradeoffs.
• Accelerating engineering velocity and improving system health through pragmatic high-leverage architectural improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Architecture Leadership

• Establish evolve and communicate architectural principles patterns and guardrails that apply across all product lines.
• Lead architectural alignment across autonomous teams balancing standardization with the flexibility needed to serve distinct market verticals.
• Identify systemic risks technical debt concentrations and single points of failure; develop and champion long-term modernization strategies.
• Define clear boundaries for where standardization creates leverage versus where flexibility delivers competitive advantage.

Software System Design and Evolution

• Guide the design and evolution of large-scale distributed SaaS platformsincluding service decomposition data partitioning and fault-tolerance strategies.
• Provide architectural review and advisory on high-impact initiatives integrations acquisitions and cross-platform convergence efforts.
• Shape service boundaries API contracts data architecture event-driven patterns and integration models.
• Proactively reduce technical complexity and prevent long-term architectural drift through governance documentation and design reviews.

Strategic Influence and Partnership

• Partner directly with VPs of Engineering Product leadership and other senior stakeholders to align architecture with business strategy and product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with platform security infrastructure and data engineering teams to ensure cohesive organization-wide system design.
• Lead through influence and expertise driving consensus and alignment in a federated multi-vertical environment.
• Mentor principal engineers senior engineers and engineering managers raising architectural maturity and technical judgment across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• 15 years of progressive experience in software engineering with at least 5 years operating in a senior architectural or principal-level capacity.
• Demonstrated track record of designing evolving and governing complex distributed SaaS systems in production at scale.
• Deep expertise in software architecture disciplines including API design service-oriented and microservice architectures domain-driven design data modeling and enterprise integration patterns.
• Proven experience working across multiple product domains technology stacks and organizational boundaries simultaneously.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures (containers serverless managed services) sufficient to guide sound design decisions and evaluate tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives VPs and senior engineering stakeholders through clear communication data-driven reasoning and executive presence.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms operating at enterprise scale.
• Background in organizations with multiple product verticals particularly those shaped by acquisitive growth and portfolio integration.
• Hands-on familiarity with event-driven architectures and modern data platform patterns.
• Track record of leading large-scale modernization initiatives spanning cloud-native systems.
• Experience establishing architecture review boards technical governance frameworks or architectural guilds.

Why This Role Matters

As Storable continues to grow the Principal Architect ensures that growth is intentional and architecturally sound. This leader is responsible for building software that is scalable adaptable and strategically aligned reducing friction across teams enabling innovation across our product portfolio and ensuring our technical investments compound over time.

This is a role for a systems thinker who operates in years not quarters someone who can bring clarity to complexity while empowering teams to execute with confidence and speed.

All applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Storable is a fully distributed company but is currently only registered for employment in certain states. To be eligible for employment you must reside in the following states: AL AZ CA CO CT FL GA ID IL IN IA KS LA MD MA MI MN MO MS NC NE NJ NV NY OH OK OR PA SC TN TX UT VA WA WI WY.

About Us:

At Storable were redefining property management for specialty real estate. Tailored for the self-storage marine and RV & camping industries we seamlessly integrate management software with marketplace listings websites CRM insurance payments and more. Dedicated to empowering owners and operators Storable helps you win more every day. Explore our platform solutions at

At the heart of Storable is our Win More culture which reflects our commitment to delivering exceptional value to our customers and fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees. As we continue to grow we are embracing an AI-forward approach by thoughtfully integrating intelligent automation advanced analytics and data-driven insights into our platform and operations to help our customers and teams operate smarter move faster and win more than ever before.

Benefits and Perks:

• Generous health coverage for you and your family including fully paid short- and long-term disability coverage and two-times base salary life insurance.
• 401(k) match after 60 days 100% vested after 1 year.
• Employer contribution to your HSA plus an HRA to help offset your deductible.
• Instant access to flexible vacation. We trust you so we have a take what you need vacation policy.
• Be More company rewards and recognition that add up and can be redeemed for personalized gifts and experiences! Storriors have been able to enroll in SCUBA certification classes travel overseas and redo their back patio among many other things.
• 8 hours of Volunteer Time Off each year and the opportunity to get active in the community by joining one of our offsite volunteer and community service events.
• 8 hours of Rest Relax Recharge time to care for your mental health.
• Access a range of mental well-being resources for yourself and your dependents including counseling services stress management programs and mindfulness workshops
• Fully paid parental leave: 12 and 6 weeks for primary and secondary caregivers respectively.
• Pawternity Leave and Pet Bereavement - we understand that pets are a part of the family and have generous time-off policies which honor that commitment.
• Caregiver Leave: four weeks of fully paid time away from work to care for aging dependents or family members if needed.
• $50 monthly home data stipend plus a home office sign-on bonus of $250.
• Fertility care support options to help in your journey towards parenthood.
• Access to financial experts to help you make informed decisions and achieve your financial goals.
• Direct Student Loan Payment Program some qualifications and eligibility rules apply.

Storable is committed to providing equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age color national origin citizenship status physical or mental disability race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression genetic information marital status status with regard to public assistance veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition Storable will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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