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Principal Engineering Manager

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead a high-performing engineering team to deliver product features with agility and quality, integrating AI-first development and hands-on technical leadership.

Role type

Principal Engineering Manager (hands-on IC with people management)

Builds

Large-scale distributed backend applications, services, and platforms

Domain

Software Engineering / Distributed Systems / AI

Required skills

Architecture design, code reviews, hands-on development (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python), experimentation design, metrics definition, system monitoring, on-call management, mentoring, cross-product collaboration

Preferred skills

AI-first development patterns, observability at scale, reliability engineering, performance optimization

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Provide hands-on technical leadership including architecture, design, and code reviews; Drive identification of dependencies and design documents for products/services; Direct experimentation efforts to determine effectiveness of changes and ship decisions; Mentor engineers and lead by example in producing extensible code; Monitor system/product/service for degradation and downtime as DRI; Adapt to new technical trends to improve availability, reliability, and efficiency.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with people management

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