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Principal Software Engineer - CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-02

Core

Designing, building, and optimizing distributed services at scale while ensuring system health, reliability, and operational excellence.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (CoreAI)

Builds

Distributed services, applications, and platforms

Domain

Cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure services, system observability, incident response leadership, code optimization, design documentation, stakeholder collaboration

Preferred skills

Emerging technologies adoption, operational best practices

Technologies

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

Responsibilities

Determine user requirements and drive design document development for products and services; break down work items and provide estimation; create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance and maintainability; serve as DRI for operational playbooks, on-call rotations, and incident response; mentor engineers during disruptions; drive project and release plans; adopt emerging technologies to enhance scalability and reliability.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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