Principal Software Engineer

Quick Facts

Role: Principal Software Engineer

Description

Own the end-to-end architecture for secure, enterprise-scale platforms spanning supportability, customer-centric engineering, escalation intelligence, and operational analytics. Lead AI-native engineering practices across the SDLC with Responsible AI controls, telemetry-first reliability, and governance of data foundations. Provide technical direction to align multiple teams and establish durable patterns for security, privacy, scale, and enterprise adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead adoption of AI-native engineering practices in SDLC, including Responsible AI controls for AI-generated design/code artifacts and workflow automation.
• Define and own end-to-end architecture for software and data platforms supporting engineering health, supportability, customer escalation, and operational intelligence.
• Lead architecture and design reviews for complex, distributed services and data systems, balancing scalability, resiliency, performance, security, privacy, and cost.
• Establish architecture patterns, standards, and guardrails for code quality, testing strategy, observability, deployment safety, and dependency management.
• Architect and govern data foundations: data models, schemas, lineage, contracts, semantic layers, quality controls, and governance.
• Drive telemetry-first engineering: instrumentation, monitoring, anomaly detection, root-cause workflows, and incident prevention.
• Lead live-site reliability strategy: DRI readiness, service health indicators, failure mode analysis, postmortems, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Partner with product management, engineering, support/escalation, and leadership to convert ambiguous needs into architecture roadmaps and milestones.
• Lead cross-team dependency planning and align ownership boundaries for shared delivery outcomes.
• Embed secure-by-design, least-privilege, data-handling controls, and regulatory requirements for compliance and auditability.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads by raising architectural quality and decision velocity.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or related technical field)
• 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python (or equivalent)
• Ability to meet security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Benefits

• Typical U.S. base pay range: USD $142,800–$274,800 per year (different ranges apply for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area)
• Role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation
• Application review begins immediately and continues on an ongoing basis until filled