Principal Software Engineer

About the role

A principal engineering role on a new platform team building large-scale data infrastructure that supports AI, analytics and decision-making across the business. The position sets technical direction for distributed services and data pipelines.

What you will do

• Design, build and run distributed platform services and APIs in Java and Python on Kubernetes or similar cloud-native infrastructure
• Apply system and low-level design rigor to ambiguous platform problems, weighing trade-offs, failure modes, cost and durability
• Contribute to Spark-based data pipelines and processing jobs when needed
• Build AI, GenAI and agentic platform capabilities such as developer tooling and workflow automation
• Own reliability, scalability and observability, including service-level objectives, tracing, alerting and incident response
• Guide architecture across microservices and event-driven systems and set engineering standards through reviews

What they look for

• At least 12 years of professional software engineering experience with large-scale distributed platforms
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Java and Python, including writing, reviewing and debugging production code
• Operational and engineering excellence mindset covering SLO and SLA ownership, incident management and blameless reviews
• Deep experience with microservices, distributed systems, event-driven patterns and API design

Nice to have

• Experience with Go, C++ or Scala