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Principal Software Engineer - HW/SW in Fleet Infrastructure

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, develop, validate, and optimize fleet infrastructure software across OS, firmware, hardware repair, telemetry, and monitoring; lead hardware and firmware reliability architecture and drive failure analysis for critical live-site incidents.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (HW/SW)

Builds

Hyperscale fleet infrastructure, hardware repair systems, telemetry platforms, and monitoring tools for AI and agentic workloads.

Domain

Hyperscale cloud infrastructure, hardware/firmware, datacenter operations, and distributed systems.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, hardware platform architecture, firmware development, OS drivers, storage systems, networking, failure analysis, predictive diagnostics, automation, cross-organizational strategy leadership, mentoring.

Preferred skills

New Product Introduction, platform validation, lifecycle management, fleet-scale hardware operations, silicon provider/vendor collaboration.

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Design and optimize infrastructure software across OS, firmware, fleet health, and telemetry; lead hardware and firmware reliability architecture including diagnostics and remediation automation; drive failure analysis and root cause investigation for critical live-site incidents; establish engineering standards and observability patterns to improve fleet availability; mentor early in career engineers.

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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