Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer for Enterprise AI Services

Lead cross-functional engineering teams delivering GenAI, agentic AI, RPA, AI/ML, and low-code/no-code capabilities across ~28k employees. This is not a hands-on coding role. You will set standards and guardrails, direct execution, and ensure secure, compliant, measurable outcomes.

What we are looking for:

• Translate business goals into prioritized roadmaps; run intake, planning, reviews, and release readiness across multiple squads.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards for prompts/agents, safety, evaluations, telemetry, CI/CD, and change control.

• Stand up governed pathways for low-code/no-code (environments, DLP, connector approvals, promotion flows).

• Define reliability and cost guardrails for AI workloads (SLOs, incident playbooks, Fin Ops hygiene) and review service health.

• Build and maintain a reusable accelerator catalog (RAG/agent templates, bot/flow patterns).

• Guide modernization and tech-debt reduction; oversee upgrade plans and risk mitigation.

• Coach tech leads; partner with Security, Architecture Data, and Legal on compliance-by-design.

• Coordinate with internal platform teams and open-source communities to align on standards.

Who you are

• Proven leadership across multiple engineering teams in SDLC/Agile/Dev Ops at enterprise scale.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs/events, data practices, and AI/ML/agentic patterns (planning, tool-use, memory, evals).

• Experience governing RPA and low-code programs at scale.

• Security mindset (least privilege, data minimization, prompt-injection/exfiltration defenses).

• Excellent communication; able to influence executives, business stakeholders, and engineers.

• Salary Range: $117,000 - $160,000
• Actual placement within the compensation range may vary depending on experience, skills, and other factors
• Benefits, subject to election and eligibility:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Paid Time Off (including paid parental leave, vacation, and sick time), 401k with company match, Tuition Reimbursement, and Mileage Reimbursement
• Annual bonus based on performance and eligibility

Education/

Experience:

• Bachelor’s in CS/IS or equivalent; 5+ years minimum as a developer/engineer; enterprise leadership experience required. Open-source familiarity (examples; no vendors

• Expert knowledge of system dev. life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, SAFe, agile, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize and Dev Ops).

• Expert knowledge of software design concepts, application servers, middleware applications and other software-related tools and concepts.

• Expert knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle).

• Expert knowledge of Operating Systems (Linux, UNIX, MacOS etc.).

• Expert skills in web and mobile development.

• Expert ability to design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.

• Expert ability to communicate technical information to other technical team members but also to coworkers in other departments who may not have knowledge of networking technical terminology.

• Expert ability to be flexible in behaviors and work practices and respond to change with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. 

• Expert ability to manage several projects simultaneously from design to implementation.
• Proven ability to provide indirect leadership to teams executing technical work.
• Agentic/orchestration:
  Lang Chain, Llama Index, Lang Graph, Auto Gen/CrewAI

• MLOps/workflows: MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow/Prefect, DVC, Feast

• Vectors/NLP: pgvector, FAISS/Milvus/Qdrant, Transformers/embedding libraries

• Automation/low-code OSS:
  Robot Framework, TagUI, n8n, Appsmith

• Observability:
  Open Telemetry

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