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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-27

Core

Architects complex products end-to-end, improves AI tools and practices across the SDLC, and owns live-site reliability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (System Architecture & AI)

Builds

Scalable products, services, and systems; AI-generated assets; automated deployment pipelines.

Domain

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System architecture, AI tool improvement, code quality leadership, test strategy design, incident response, automation, security-as-code, feature lifecycle management, distributed systems design, algorithm design

Preferred skills

TypeScript, Python, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, C, threat modeling, observability integration, postmortem analysis

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Create and iterate on design documents evaluating trade-offs for performance and scalability; Improve AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle; Conduct code reviews and mentor engineers; Design and own test strategies preventing regression; Drive engineering excellence through automation and security-as-code; Plan and deliver features with full lifecycle ownership; Own live-site reliability by integrating telemetry and responding to incidents.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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