Principal Software Engineer-AI Infrastructure
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Oversee and own the architecture of deeply complex and ambiguous products and solutions, evaluate design options and trade-offs, and align technical decisions with customer, business, and long-term platform outcomes. Drive innovation and delivery across multiple large-scale initiatives, guiding teams through architecture, design, implementation, validation, deployment, and operationalization. Design platform-first products, services, tools, and extensible code that can be reused across the organization while meeting performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, security, compliance, and cost requirements. Establish and champion company-wide coding, testing, architecture, and operational standards; provide technical leadership in reviews and mentor engineers and technical leaders. Act as a technical authority for cross-product debugging, verification, telemetry, incident learning, repair actions, and automation that targets zero-touch deployment and prevents recurrence. Build alignment across teams, customers, and technical leadership; negotiate dependencies and trade-offs, hold stakeholders accountable for commitments, and execute a long-term vision for core infrastructure. Influence open-source projects and industry practices, evaluate emerging technologies, and advance layered security, privacy, safety, and strategic compliance across complex products. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Experience
providing architecture and technical leadership for multiple large-scale distributed systems, databases, analytics systems, or platform product areas.
Experience
aligning technical decisions with business outcomes and influencing cross-functional teams and senior technical leadership.
Experience
developing systems with languages such as Java, C++, or Rust and applying concepts such as query execution, indexing, concurrency, distributed algorithms, or data structures.
Experience
influencing open-source projects or participating in open-source project management and governance.
Experience
building interactive services, analytics interfaces, data infrastructure, compute infrastructure, or other large-scale platform systems.
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