Hiring for Principal Software Architect at KYRC

We are hiring a principal-level engineer to diagnose structural flaws in existing software architecture, design systems that guarantee long-term stability and quality, and lead the engineering organization.

1. Principal Software Architect

[Key Responsibilities] 

• 1. Software Design Defect Analysis & Resolution

  •     Identify architectural anti-patterns in existing codebases and perform root-cause analysis

  •     Trace root causes of hard-to-reproduce defects such as performance degradation, memory leaks, and concurrency bugs (race conditions, deadlocks)

  •     Quantify technical debt in legacy systems and build a risk-prioritized improvement roadmap

  •     Propose actionable redesign solutions — including backward-compatibility and migration strategy — rather than purely theoretical proposals

  2. Design & Management of Software Stability Assurance Systems

  •     Develop in-house static-analysis diagnostic rules and integrate them into the CI pipeline

  •     Design tiered severity quality gates and enforce them in the build process

  •     Design suppression/waiver governance policy — format validation, deadline management, and automatic severity escalation upon deadline expiration

  •     Establish system-level quality standards for memory safety, exception-handling consistency, and resource-disposal patterns

  •     Establish post-mortem processes based on log/dump analysis following incidents

  3. Technical Problem Analysis, Design & Management

  •     Break down cross-team technical challenges, define design direction, and manage assigned engineers' progress

  •     Operate code/design review processes and give final approval on technical decisions

  •     Maintain technical documentation systems such as Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)

  •     Report technical risks and progress status to executives and other departments

[Required Qualification] 

Education

• Bachelor's degree (BS) or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field - required
• Master's degree (MS), Ph.D. — preferred

Experience

• 15+ years of hands-on software development experience, including 5+ years in an architecture/technical-lead role
• 3+ years managing an engineering team (team size of 5 or more)
• Experience leading technical evaluation

Programming Languages & Technology Stack

•     C#: Expert-level with .NET (Framework/Core/5+), asynchronous programming (async/await, Task), LINQ, and memory management (including GC tuning)

•     C++: Hands-on experience with modern C++ (11 and later), RAII, smart pointers, and template metaprogramming

•     Interoperability experience between the two languages (P/Invoke, C++/CLI, etc.) — preferred

System-Level Understanding

•     File I/O: File-system structure, buffering/caching strategies, performance characteristics of large-file processing, file locking and concurrent-access control

•     Database (covering RDB / NoSQL / File-based DB): Understanding of internal behavior, consistency models, and integration with query engines

•     OS: Process/thread models, memory management, kernel/user-mode transitions, and platform differences between Windows and Linux

Quality & Design Competency

•     Experience developing or customizing static-analysis tools

•     Deep understanding and practical application of design and architecture patterns (Layered, Hexagonal, Event-Driven, etc.)

•     Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and building quality gates

•     Experience automating test design/structuring — distinct from test-execution automation — including identifying test targets, generating test scaffolding, and managing coverage

•     Experience identifying technical debt through code review and formulating refactoring strategy

Communication

•     Business-level English (capable of documentation, video conference, and technical discussion)

•     Ability to explain technical content to non-technical stakeholders

[Preferred Qualification]

• Domain experience in industrial automation, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), semiconductor/electronics equipment, or robotics
• Experience leading gradual migration/modernization projects for large-scale legacy system
• Experience using and driving team adoption of AI coding assitants (Claude Code, GitHub, Gopiolt, etc)
• Contributions to open-source static-analystis tools, or experience distributing internally developed tooling
• Experience working with multinational teams
• Expeirence designing large-scale data pipelines (ETL/ELT, hybrid batch + streaming)

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• CV

[Work Location] 👀

KYRC (Burnaby, BC)

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