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title: 'Lead System Architect - High Availability & Cloud Infrastructure at Chiri'
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# Lead System Architect - High Availability & Cloud Infrastructure at Chiri

- **Company:** Chiri
- **Location:** South, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/chiri/am9icG9zdDrQAUfOZHE0t7vBGyb-IM_q

## Job description

## About Chiri

Chiri collapses fragmented software into one governed operating layer for mid-sized businesses: companies with valuable workflows and real urgency, but no internal AI organization to take a use case to production. We combine our platform with forward-deployed expertise to connect customers' existing systems, build what they need, and operate it in production. Increasingly, buyers are asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI systems what they should use. Chiri must be one of their top answers.

## Role Overview

We're looking for an experienced Lead System Architect to design and help implement highly available, resilient infrastructure for a new healthcare and pharmacy-finance platform. This is a hands-on architecture role requiring engineering leadership across a small dedicated team, deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, cell-based architecture, and real-time observability. The systems you design must maintain reliability and performance as transaction volumes grow.

## Key Responsibilities

- Resilient Architecture: Design highly available, fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, failure isolation, automated recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Architect and implement Kubernetes-based environments using Terraform and infrastructure as code.
- Cell-Based Design: Establish independent deployment and failure boundaries that limit the impact of outages and support scalable operations.
- Observability: Build comprehensive, real-time monitoring across infrastructure, applications, transactions, data pipelines, latency, errors, and system health.
- Engineering Delivery: Work with backend and data engineers to establish deployment standards, performance targets, operational controls, and secure production environments.
- Architectural decisions: across infrastructure, backend services, data engineering, and ML.
- Team coordination: Conduct technical reviews, resolve blockers, and remain hands-on with engineering work.

Required Skills and Experience

- Proven experience architecting and operating highly available production systems.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Experience implementing cell-based, fault-isolated, or similarly resilient distributed architectures.
- Strong understanding of cloud networking, load balancing, autoscaling, service reliability, and disaster recovery.
- Experience building observability platforms with metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
- Experience with CI/CD, container security, infrastructure automation, and production incident management.
- Experience leading small, cross-functional engineering teams, coordinating architecture, technical decisions, and end-to-end delivery across infrastructure, backend, and data engineering.
- Customer-Facing Delivery Leadership: Proven ability to serve as the primary technical lead for client engagements, managing requirements, milestones, technical communications, and delivery accountability with minimal oversight.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure. We care more about demonstrated results than credentials, agency pedigree, or an arbitrary number of years.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building low-latency, transaction-intensive platforms.
- Experience in healthcare, financial services, or other regulated environments.
- Familiarity with HIPAA-related security and data isolation requirements. Infrastructure standard: Terraform is required. Azure Bicep is not part of the intended infrastructure approach.

## What We Offer

A high-ownership opportunity to establish the architecture and reliability foundations of a new production platform, working directly with Chiri's technical leadership.

## About Chiri

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Chiri is an AI orchestration platform that helps companies build governed, scalable AI-powered workflows alongside their human teams, positioning itself as an "AI Sherpa" for enterprises transitioning from AI-nascent to AI-native.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed/Early Stage based on headcount and funding indicators)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly listed)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Enterprise Software / AI Orchestration & Governance
- **Target Customers**: B2B, mid-market to enterprise companies (e.g., B2B security firms, operations-heavy businesses)
- **Mission/Purpose**: To lead companies safely and successfully from AI-nascent to AI-native, ensuring no business is left behind by AI.

## Products & Services
- **ChiriBrain**: The core governance and orchestration layer that scales AI workflows, connects across 2,000+ tools and 350+ AI models, and provides cost controls, audit trails, and confidence thresholds. It acts as a "system of action" on top of existing infrastructure.
- **Forward-Deployed Engineering Services**: Chiri sends in engineers to learn how a client's team works, map high-value workflows, and build custom AI-powered systems. This service precedes the software deployment.
- **AI Agent Workflows**: Pre-built and custom AI agents that operate in existing tools like Slack, Gmail, and Teams, automating tasks such as inventory management, GTM pipeline enrichment, and finance reconciliation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 11 total employees (as of 2025); reports client outcomes such as $60K/mo saved (6x faster AI adoption), $450K/yr savings (3x faster AI optimization), and $900K saved (4x faster AI software engineering).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025 and already reports significant client savings; actively hiring across multiple engineering roles (Full Stack, Mobile, QA, Data Platform); operates in 18 locations with a hybrid work model.

## Competitive Advantages
- **"Services + Software" Model**: Unlike pure-play AI software vendors, Chiri starts with human engineers who embed with client teams, ensuring the AI foundation is custom-built for actual workflows before deploying the platform.
- **Enterprise-Grade Governance**: Provides 100% audited workflows, cost controls, and a governance layer designed for scale from day one, addressing a key pain point for enterprises wary of ungoverned AI.
- **Integration Depth**: Connects to 2,000+ tools and 350+ AI models, meaning clients do not need to rip out existing infrastructure.
- **Proven ROI**: Publishes concrete client case studies with dollar amounts and time savings, demonstrating measurable value.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priorities**: Scaling the forward-deployed engineering team; building out the ChiriBrain platform for broader enterprise adoption; expanding the number of pre-built agent workflows; and maintaining a "system-led approach" that combines human expertise with AI agents.
- **Growth Direction**: Moving from bespoke client engagements to a repeatable, scalable platform that enterprises can run independently after initial setup.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as ambitious, with a focus on shaping the future of Human+AI teams. The company emphasizes a "Sherpa" mentality—carrying the weight for clients and not leaving them at base camp.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid workspace; employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work. Typical on-site time is not specified but roles are listed as remote across 18-20 locations.
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Engineers own features end-to-end and work directly with clients to deliver measurable business outcomes. Roles emphasize backend focus, API design, AI-powered features, and collaboration across product and client teams. Open roles include Full Stack, Mobile (iOS/Flutter), QA, and Data Platform engineers.

## Sources
1. [chiri.ai](https://chiri.ai/)
2. [chiri.ai/careers](https://chiri.ai/careers)
3. [builtin.com/company/chiri](https://builtin.com/company/chiri)
4. [linkedin.com/company/chiriai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/chiriai)
5. [builtin.com/company/chiri/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/chiri/jobs)

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