Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

at Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

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.

• 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.

• 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 - $150,000
• 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.
• Expertability to design and codethe right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Expertabilityto communicate technical information to other technical team members but also to coworkers in other departments who may not have knowledge of networking technical terminology.
• Expertability 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.
• Provenabilityto 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

Keurig Dr Pepper (NASDAQ: KDP) is a leading beverage company in North America, with a portfolio of more than 125 owned, licensed and partner brands and powerful distribution capabilities to provide a beverage for every need, anytime, anywhere. We operate with a differentiated business model and world‑class brand portfolio, powered by a talented and engaged team that is anchored in our values.

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