Remote Software Architect Jobs
Remote software architect jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed engineering teams, and technology-driven companies in sectors like software, fintech, healthcare technology, and enterprise cloud services. Employers currently hiring include NVIDIA, PDI Technologies, and Nationwide IT Services. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
Find JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 33+ Remote Software Architect jobs
Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Architect to help shape the architecture of Dotmatics Luma, our next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation platform for multimodal scientific discovery. You will design and refine the AWS systems that deploy Luma efficiently to customers.
As a Principal Software Engineering Architect, you will be a key driver in delivering Luma to customers. This role will be an influential leader and advisor to the Engineering and Product teams. You will provide deep technical expertise on our current technologies, and technical leadership that promotes new ideas and improves how we build and release Luma, including how instruments, scientific data, and the AI agent at the core of the platform connect.
In this role you will get to
- Support and drive the end-to-end architecture of Luma, from instrument connectivity and data ingestion through to the platform services and AI agent experience
- Influence technology choices for the platform
- Design solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable, with the data isolation and auditability that regulated scientific customers
- Collaborate on architectural principles, frameworks, best practices, and standards, including how the AI agent and extension points such as MCP connect securely to platform services
- Drive strategic technology initiatives with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineers
- Be hands-on in developing and delivering Luma, this includes prototyping and guiding the implementation of components inside of Luma.
- Help improve developer experience and software lifecycle by proposing tools and pipelines that increase the quality of the software development experience.
- Advise the product team in clarifying requirements for deploying Luma into customer clouds, including multi-tenant and regulated-environment needs
- Work with customer cloud teams.
- Facilitate the architecture processes, including architecture reviews and documentation
- Mentor other software engineers on the team
- Shape projects in a timely manner to established architecture patterns
- Work in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration, and alignment among teams inside and outside the organization
- Analyse and provide feedback on Luma product strategy
We are looking for people who have a BSc in Computer Science and 10+ equivalent, with deep technical expertise in engineering architecture and engineering design. You will have expert knowledge of building, releasing, and maintaining a complex scientific enterprise software platform.
The Key Skills we are looking for:
- Deep understanding of modern cloud software architecture, including multi-tenant platforms
- Systems design and development, with a solid understanding of application development best practices and core enterprise applications
- Deep knowledge of AWS services
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Kafka
- Working technical knowledge of integration strategies, including web services and APIs
- Experience setting up agentic harnesses for code generation
- Influential communication with core and cross-functional teams
- Infrastructure-as-code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Software containerization concepts (Docker, Podman)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline)
- Knowledge of networking concepts in cloud environments
- Software development lifecycle processes and version control
- Modern back-end JavaScript and Node.js, Python
- Business requirements gathering and analysis, strategic planning, and project planning and management
- Engineering evaluation principles and practice
You may also have:
- Instrument integration and scientific data ingestion (e.g. SiLA, OPC-UA)
- Apache Spark, Databricks, or comparable data platforms
- Securing AI agent integrations (permissions, sandboxing, prompt injection defense)
- Experience using research informatics software and tools
- Scala
Total Rewards
Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.
Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
Other Total Rewards Offered
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)
This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
Base Pay Range
$173,400 - $234,600 USD
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
Our Why At Dotmatics
At Dotmatics, a Siemens company, we believe science, data, and decision-making must be deeply intertwined for innovation to thrive. Our Portfolio includes Luma, LumaLab Connect, ELN Platform, Graphpad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, OMIQ, FCS Express, LabArchives, NQuery, EasyPanel, SoftGenetics and Virscidian.
We have a vision for a new Lab of the Future that will change the future of scientific research.
We have created the world’s most comprehensive digital science platform – best-of-breed software applications already used by more than 2 million scientists, together in a single ecosystem united by a powerful, flexible enterprise data platform. This is not flat data buried away in digital graveyards. This is dynamic, multi-dimensional decision-making.
Scientific enterprises need a new level of effectiveness to achieve tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Illness will not wait. The biosphere will not wait. We are tireless in our vision, because the time for innovation is now.
Shaping the Future of Science At Dotmatics
Our global team of more than 800 colleagues are dedicated to supporting our customers in over 180 countries. Together, with our scientific community of users, we accelerate scientific innovation in order to make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live.
You’ll join a collaborative, global team pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Your ideas and efforts will have a tangible impact, accelerating scientific progress and discovery. We offer a dynamic, remote-friendly environment that fosters high integrity and collaboration, empowering you to excel. Dotmatics is a company built by scientists, for scientists. Combined, we are now the world’s largest cloud-based scientific research R&D platform. We need your help to keep growing and pioneering the future.
We are Science Driven. We are Customer Centric. We are Better Together.
What do we need
We are looking for an experienced Principal Engineering Architect to help shape the architecture of Dotmatics Luma, our next-generation, multi-tenant, AI-powered data management and workflow automation platform for multimodal scientific discovery. You will design and refine the AWS systems that deploy Luma efficiently to customers.
As a Principal Software Engineering Architect, you will be a key driver in delivering Luma to customers. This role will be an influential leader and advisor to the Engineering and Product teams. You will provide deep technical expertise on our current technologies, and technical leadership that promotes new ideas and improves how we build and release Luma, including how instruments, scientific data, and the AI agent at the core of the platform connect.
In this role you will get to
- Support and drive the end-to-end architecture of Luma, from instrument connectivity and data ingestion through to the platform services and AI agent experience
- Influence technology choices for the platform
- Design solutions that are enterprise scalable and maintainable, with the data isolation and auditability that regulated scientific customers
- Collaborate on architectural principles, frameworks, best practices, and standards, including how the AI agent and extension points such as MCP connect securely to platform services
- Drive strategic technology initiatives with Product Managers, other Architects, and Engineers
- Be hands-on in developing and delivering Luma, this includes prototyping and guiding the implementation of components inside of Luma.
- Help improve developer experience and software lifecycle by proposing tools and pipelines that increase the quality of the software development experience.
- Advise the product team in clarifying requirements for deploying Luma into customer clouds, including multi-tenant and regulated-environment needs
- Work with customer cloud teams.
- Facilitate the architecture processes, including architecture reviews and documentation
- Mentor other software engineers on the team
- Shape projects in a timely manner to established architecture patterns
- Work in a consultative fashion to improve communication, collaboration, and alignment among teams inside and outside the organization
- Analyse and provide feedback on Luma product strategy
We are looking for people who have a BSc in Computer Science and 10+ equivalent, with deep technical expertise in engineering architecture and engineering design. You will have expert knowledge of building, releasing, and maintaining a complex scientific enterprise software platform.
The Key Skills we are looking for:
- Deep understanding of modern cloud software architecture, including multi-tenant platforms
- Systems design and development, with a solid understanding of application development best practices and core enterprise applications
- Deep knowledge of AWS services
- Knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure such as Kubernetes and Kafka
- Working technical knowledge of integration strategies, including web services and APIs
- Experience setting up agentic harnesses for code generation
- Influential communication with core and cross-functional teams
- Infrastructure-as-code solutions (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Software containerization concepts (Docker, Podman)
- CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, CodePipeline)
- Knowledge of networking concepts in cloud environments
- Software development lifecycle processes and version control
- Modern back-end JavaScript and Node.js, Python
- Business requirements gathering and analysis, strategic planning, and project planning and management
- Engineering evaluation principles and practice
You may also have:
- Instrument integration and scientific data ingestion (e.g. SiLA, OPC-UA)
- Apache Spark, Databricks, or comparable data platforms
- Securing AI agent integrations (permissions, sandboxing, prompt injection defense)
- Experience using research informatics software and tools
- Scala
Total Rewards
Dotmatics utilises a national market-based approach to base pay benchmarking and pay band development. The candidate's final starting pay is based on job-related skills, experience, job specific qualifications & location. In addition to base salary, Dotmatics has implemented a total rewards strategy, which is the combination of compensation, benefits and recognition.
Certain positions are also eligible for variable pay; your recruiter will discuss the full compensation package details.
Other Total Rewards Offered
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Insurance
- Health Spending Accounts
- Wellness Benefits (Mental Health Apps and Fitness Perks)
- Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan (with 4% company match; immediate vesting)
- Flexible Time off Plan (for US exempt employees)
This is the range that we, in good faith, believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
Base Pay Range
$173,400 - $234,600 USD
Research shows us the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting outstanding candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.
By submitting your application, you agree that Dotmatics may collect your personal data for recruiting, global organization planning, and related purposes. Dotmatics Privacy Notice explains what personal information we may process, where we may process your personal information, our purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Dotmatics use of your personal information.
Dotmatics is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work.
See All 33 Remote Software Architect Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find JobsRemote Software Architect Job Market
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote software architect jobs.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 in an architecture or technical lead role
- Demonstrated expertise designing distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native applications at scale
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Strong command of architectural patterns including event-driven design, domain-driven design, and API strategy
- Experience producing architecture documentation and presenting technical decisions to executive stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Software Architect Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote software architect openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority level and apply directly without sorting through mixed location listings.
Show async leadership in your portfolio
Remote engineering teams need architects who lead through documentation, not hallway conversations. Publish architecture decision records, system design writeups, or RFC-style documents you've authored to demonstrate you can align distributed teams through clear written communication.
Target remote-first companies specifically
Remote-first firms build processes around distributed work from day one, meaning a remote software architect integrates naturally instead of adapting to an office-centric culture. Look for companies that publish async-first engineering blogs, use tools like Notion for technical decision tracking, and have engineering leadership distributed across time zones.
Prepare for distributed system design interviews
Remote software architect interviews frequently focus on distributed systems, API design, and cloud-native architecture decisions made without real-time collaboration. Practice articulating trade-offs in writing and whiteboarding tools like Excalidraw or Miro, since remote interviewers often run system design sessions asynchronously or over video with shared canvases.
Remote Software Architect Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote software architect job?
Remote software architect roles go to candidates who can demonstrate strong async communication, independent technical decision-making, and the ability to lead distributed engineering teams without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen heavily for clear written documentation, experience with tools like Confluence, Jira, and Slack, and a portfolio of architecture decisions you owned end-to-end. Candidates who show they can align distributed teams around technical strategy have a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote software architects?
Employers currently hiring remote software architects include NVIDIA, PDI Technologies, and Nationwide IT Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology companies, distributed SaaS teams, and cloud-native fintech and healthcare technology firms make up the majority of employers hiring software architects fully remotely.
Can you get a remote software architect job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry paths are narrower because remote software architect roles require strong self-direction from day one. Early-career candidates have the most success at remote-first startups and smaller distributed teams that value portfolio work, open-source architecture contributions, and demonstrated system design thinking over years of employment. Documenting architecture decisions you made in personal or volunteer projects gives remote employers something concrete to evaluate.
Do you need a degree for remote software architect jobs?
Not always. Remote employers for software architect roles weigh demonstrated system design ability, hands-on engineering depth, and a record of technical leadership more heavily than a specific credential. A strong portfolio of architecture diagrams, design documents, and shipped systems often carries more weight than a degree, particularly at remote-first companies and distributed product teams that evaluate candidates on output.
Which industries hire the most remote software architects?
Most remote software architect openings sit in Healthcare & Medical Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed engineering teams building complex, scalable systems, which makes remote software architect hiring a natural fit across their organizations.
See All 33 Remote Software Architect Jobs
Find roles that match your experience and apply in just a few clicks.
Find Jobs