Principal Engineer, DevEx
Core
Architect and operate the core platform infrastructure (CI/CD, artifact management, GitOps) and agentic AI automation pipelines to enable software delivery for thousands of engineers across Yahoo.
Role type
Principal Engineer, Platform Engineering & AI Automation
Builds
Enterprise CI/CD ecosystems, agentic AI configuration management systems, and self-service developer portals
Domain
Software Engineering / Platform Engineering / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
CI/CD architecture, GitOps (ArgoCD), artifact management, agentic AI workflow design, LLM integration, technical leadership, security policy enforcement
Preferred skills
Company-wide GitOps migration leadership, custom AI evaluation frameworks, security/compliance collaboration, open-source contributions
Technologies
ArgoCD, Anthropic Claude, AWS Bedrock, GitHub Copilot, Artifactory
Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end design of developer platform initiatives; Architect and deploy production-grade agentic AI systems for configuration management; Establish evaluation frameworks and guardrails for AI-generated configurations; Define enterprise paved-road templates and CI compute standards; Drive developer productivity via AI-assisted tools and self-service portals; Partner with Security/Compliance to embed policies in pipelines; Chair technical design reviews and mentor senior engineers
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship