Agent Architect skills & stack
The skills and tools employers expect from a Agent Architect, plus what each level is expected to own.
Core skills
Distributed systemsMulti-agent orchestrationModel selection & routingPlatform & DXSafety & guardrails
Typical stack & tools
Distributed systemsKubernetesMessage queues / event streamsLangGraph / orchestration frameworksModel routingObservability stacks
What you'll actually do
- •Decompose problems into agents and define how they coordinate and hand off
- •Design the orchestration, state, and memory architecture for multi-agent systems
- •Set standards for observability, evals, safety, and developer experience
- •Own model selection and routing trade-offs (capability vs. cost vs. latency)
- •Guide build-vs-buy on agent frameworks and platform components
Skills by level
- Senior
- Architects a single agent product's system design and reliability posture.
- Staff
- Owns architecture across multiple agent products; sets org-wide patterns.
- Principal
- Defines the agent platform strategy and safety/guardrail standards company-wide.
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