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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-28 → 2026-09-26

Core

Provides technical leadership for complex product scenarios, designs scalable systems, and mentors engineers to build extensible, maintainable code.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (System Design & Leadership)

Builds

Cross-product platforms, applications, and services

Domain

Software Engineering / System Architecture

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

System design, technical leadership, mentoring, on-call incident management, observability, performance optimization, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Deep subject-matter expertise in cross-product features, adaptability to new technical trends

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Partner with stakeholders to define user requirements for complex scenarios, lead the identification of dependencies and development of design documents, mentor engineers to produce maintainable code, lead multiple product project and release plans, monitor system health and handle on-call incidents, drive consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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