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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-27

Core

Designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and cloud service backends, including AI agent/LLM-based systems at production scale.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (distributed systems & AI)

Builds

Large-scale distributed systems, service backends, AI agent/LLM-based systems

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/LLM

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

distributed systems architecture, capacity planning, throughput/latency SLA management, cost-of-goods optimization, cloud infrastructure design, AI agent/LLM system design, CI/CD automation, system mentoring, stakeholder negotiation

Preferred skills

Azure cloud expertise, C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python proficiency

Technologies

Azure, Azure DevOps (ADO), CI/CD pipelines

Responsibilities

Architecting complex ambiguous systems end-to-end, mentoring senior engineers, negotiating dependencies with partner teams, designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, managing capacity planning and SLAs

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship

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