# Principal System Architect at LI-COR

- Company: LI-COR
- What the company does: Explore LI-COR's innovative environmental research instruments. Our advanced solutions in gas analysis and plant science help scientists worldwide address climate change and sustainability challenges. Backed by Battery.
- Company website: https://www.licor.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/licor/jobs/8226207
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/li-cor-principal-system-architect/

## About the role

The Principal System Architect provides technical direction and hands-on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable.

## What they're looking for

- Typically 12 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform
- Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language
- Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale

Tags: Engineering