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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define technical direction and own architecture for secure, scalable containerized compute platforms and APIs supporting agentic workloads and AI-generated code execution.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Platform & Infrastructure)

Builds

Platform services, APIs, and containerized compute infrastructure on Azure

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure, Container Orchestration, Generative AI Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), Azure compute services (AKS, Service Fabric), Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep), CI/CD pipelines, Distributed tracing and log analytics, High-availability system design, Mentoring and technical leadership, Security architecture and validation, Networking (VNet, DNS, Load Balancing), Generative AI and LLM infrastructure

Preferred skills

Experience with untrusted code execution environments, Cross-organizational architecture leadership

Technologies

Azure Container Instances, Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, ARM, Bicep, Azure DevOps

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and own architecture for platform services and APIs, Lead networking, identity, and isolation strategies, Drive secure design principles and validation of security invariants, Lead debugging, testing, and telemetry analysis to resolve issues, Lead incident retrospectives and on-call rotation, Drive capacity planning and infrastructure cost efficiency, Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and raise design/code quality

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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