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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead design and development of large-scale, self-service AI, agentic, and data-platform capabilities and frameworks.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI/Agentic Systems & Data Platform)

Builds

AI-native software development tools, agentic workflows, and data-platform frameworks

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Agentic Workflows, Big Data, Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Large-scale distributed systems design, AI/LLM orchestration, streaming pipelines, container orchestration, production diagnostics, cloud services architecture, programming in C/C++/Java/Python/JavaScript

Preferred skills

Experience with Copilot and agent-assisted engineering, near-real-time data pipelines, service reliability engineering

Technologies

Kubernetes, Cosmic, Azure, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, LLMs

Responsibilities

Design and develop large-scale self-service AI and data-platform capabilities, advance AI-native software development through coding agents and agentic workflows, build reliable highly available production services, navigate ambiguity to drive technical decisions

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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