About this role
Job title: Senior Architecture Host / Teaching Architect
About the Role TripleTen is launching a program for experienced engineers transitioning into system architecture roles. This is a teaching and review role: you will host live sessions, review student work, run architecture review boards, and set the technical bar for supporting instructors. You will be the senior technical presence guiding students week to week, with real-world system design experience.
What You'll Do
- Host weekly live sessions across the program, focused on design and decision layers: where to split services, how systems scale and fail, which tradeoffs to make and why
- Run group office hours and 1:1 sessions for students working through projects and the capstone
- Review architecture dossiers, deployed backends, cloud infrastructure, performance reports, security reviews, and the final distributed-system capstone against rubrics
- Give architectural feedback, not just pass/fail checks; catch when a design decision is unsound and explain the better path
- Run mock architecture review boards and the simulated executive-panel presentations, providing structured, senior-level critique
- Set the technical standard for a team of supporting instructors and act as their escalation point on design and architecture calls
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years as a senior software/systems architect, platform engineer, or senior backend/infrastructure engineer
- Has designed and shipped systems at scale in a real company, not just coursework or side projects
- Depth across the architectural spine: system design, API and service architecture, cloud and infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD), and distributed systems
- Ability to explain why a decision was made, not just how it was implemented, and can diagnose and critique someone else’s architecture live
- Strong technical communication: comfortable leading a live session and writing clear, specific review feedback
- Strong English C1+ — instruction and review are in English for a US-based audience
- Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day technical work
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with ADRs, C4 diagrams, and architecture documentation best practices
- Experience with AI systems design, LLM integration, RAG, ML reliability, AI governance
- Familiarity with zero-trust security and threat modeling
- Experience leading distributed teams or working in remote international environments
Compensation & Benefits
- Milestone-based payments tied to deliverables
- Fully remote work with flexible hours
- A digital office — Notion, Miro, Slack, Figma for collaboration
- Professional trust and autonomy — no micromanaging
- The chance to see real impact: graduates landing jobs in tech
- Join a diverse, international, and close-knit team