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Principal Engineer, Product

Palo Alto HQ💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for user-facing AI creative tools serving millions of users.

Role type

Principal Product Engineer (Senior IC with strategic leadership)

Builds

Web and multi-platform creative tools with real-time collaboration, generative AI workflows, and intuitive UIs

Domain

AI creative tools, generative media, real-time collaboration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Systems design, distributed systems, scalable APIs, cloud infrastructure, product strategy, cross-stack engineering, technical mentorship

Preferred skills

Generative AI integration, agentic workflows, media-rich applications, startup environment experience

Technologies

React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, Python, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP

Responsibilities

Define architecture and technical strategy for web/multi-platform products; Spearhead real-time collaboration and multi-user interactions; Drive features from ideation to launch; Integrate generative AI workflows; Partner with product/design leadership; Champion technical excellence via reviews and mentorship; Oversee cross-service metrics and observability

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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