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Principal Software Engineer Manager, CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and manage a team of engineers while driving strategic product direction, ensuring engineering alignment, and delivering cohesive end-to-end experiences for large-scale distributed systems.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer Manager

Builds

Core platform components, reusable building blocks, and seamless integration of features across the stack.

Domain

Software Engineering / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Team management and coaching, strategic planning with data-driven insights, cross-functional collaboration, end-to-end experience delivery, foundational capability development, customer engagement, operational excellence for large-scale systems, root cause analysis (RCA), reliability and performance standards.

Preferred skills

N/A

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Manage and coach engineers across levels to foster collaboration and career growth; leverage data and competitive intelligence to inform product direction; align engineering teams and partners on technical direction; collaborate with partner teams to ensure seamless feature delivery; contribute to and lead development of core platform components; engage with customers and product teams to refine product messaging; drive operational excellence in managing large-scale distributed systems; lead root cause analyses for live site incidents and set standards for reliability.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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