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Principal Software Architect

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-25

Core

Own end-to-end architecture for a critical data security platform area, defining roadmaps, driving technical designs, and ensuring production readiness for cloud-scale services.

Role type

Principal Software Architect (Data Security & AI)

Builds

Scalable, highly available cloud services and distributed systems with integrated AI/LLM capabilities

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Cloud architecture, distributed systems design, security policy evaluation, authorization systems, LLM application development, threat modeling, CI/CD, technical leadership, cross-team alignment, AI-native engineering practices

Preferred skills

Experience with agent orchestration, prompt engineering, RAG, model fine-tuning, secure coding practices

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AutoGen, DSPy, Transformers, Haystack

Responsibilities

Author and drive high-quality technical designs and architectural decisions; Write production code and prototype hardest technical challenges; Lead technical alignment across engineering organizations; Own reliability and supportability of cloud-scale services; Raise security, privacy, and compliance bar through threat modeling and automated gates; Establish responsible AI-native engineering practices; Mentor and grow engineers through direct technical leadership

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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