Carrières Shutterfly - Senior Principal Software Engineer
$159,750–$225,500 year
RemoteCalifornia, United States or Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Architect and build scalable agentic AI systems that power seamless customer experiences driving conversion and delight. Develop multi-agent systems that reason, plan, and take actions across tools while defining platform abstractions to enable independent team innovation. Maintain deep hands-on involvement in prototyping, architecture, and critical production systems using modern AI tooling like LLMs and orchestration frameworks. Define and track AI-specific success metrics including model quality, latency, and business KPIs to ensure systems are highly available, performant, and production-grade at scale. Lead cross-organizational technical strategy across ecommerce, personalization, and marketing technology domains while mentoring senior engineers and championing AI-first development practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in an Engineering discipline or Computer Science
- 12+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering large-scale, high-impact systems
- Experience influencing and leading cross-organizational technical strategy
- Strong hands-on coding and system design skills
- Experience operating large-scale, highly available cloud systems
- Demonstrated ability to translate advanced technology into business impact
- Must be able to work in a remote role based in the United States
- Preference for candidates in the metro areas of Phoenix, AZ; Dallas, TX and/or Charlotte, NC areas
Desired Qualifications
- Masters degree in an Engineering discipline or Computer Science
- Experience building 0→1 AI platforms or products in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Experience building AI/ML systems, especially with: LLMs, agent frameworks, and retrieval systems
- Multi-agent architectures and orchestration
- Experience in consumer-facing products or ecommerce platforms
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