Principal Software Engineer (AI/Cloud/Infrastructure/API)

Job Description

The Engineering Experience (EngEx) organization at NBCUniversal is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical direction, architecture, and strategy across our developer platforms and cloud enablement stack.

This is a strategic enterprise-level role with direct influence over how NBCUniversal’s engineers build software. A critical component of this role will be to drive the adoption and integration of AI across the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for designing secure, scalable workflows that integrate AI and automation into CI/CD pipelines, developer IDEs, and quality assurance stages to enhance brainstorming, code-assist, code-review, and code-quality processes. This role will also ensure consistent patterns in API design and management, as well as enforce principles of security and privacy by design across all development workflows.

In addition, this role will oversee technical direction across:

• Cloud Control Plane (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Cloud FinOps (Chargeback & Governance)
• Developer Tooling (GitHub Enterprise, Terraform Enterprise, Nexus, SonarQube, Atlassian, etc)
• Observability Platforms (Datadog, Splunk, AWS Quicksight)
• Kong API Gateway
• AI Gateway

Responsibilities:

• Establish and evangelize technical direction for all EngEx platforms, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and engineering best practices.
• Lead the enterprise-wide adoption of continuous AI workflows that embed intelligent, context-aware tooling across the SDLC. Architect secure, scalable environments to enable agentic development and support adaptive, real-time engineering experiences.
• Design and enforce security guardrails and policies in alignment with NBCUniversal’s governance and compliance standards.
• Architect and govern cloud control plane automation, multi-cloud account provisioning, and chargeback frameworks with a focus on FinOps and security.
• Drive the expansion and optimization of GitHub Enterprise, including org and billing consolidation, cost-center alignment, and policy governance.
• Develop observability and metric strategies using Datadog, Splunk, and AWS Quicksight to track and visualize platform health and SDLC productivity.
• Implement data collection pipelines from tooling (GitHub, CoPilot, Jira, Kong, etc.) to measure adoption and effectiveness of development workflows.
• Define and implement API governance frameworks, including IAM/OAuth2 flows, rate limiting, and auditing policies across Kong Gateways.
• Champion self-service capabilities and automation to reduce friction and enable rapid provisioning and compliance across cloud services and developer platforms.
• Mentor staff and junior engineers across the Engineering Experience organization, developing their technical acumen and ensuring alignment across platform pillars.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure architecture.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing strategic cloud-native and microservice architectures at enterprise scale, with an understanding of design principles for scalability, performance, and reliability
• Proven experience designing and operationalizing developer platforms at scale, with strong focus on AI-driven SDLC improvements.
• Deep expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, and GitHub CoPilot, including workflow automation, security integration, and team adoption strategies.
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and FinOps principles for cost visibility and optimization.
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Splunk, AWS Quicksight) and metric instrumentation across the developer experience stack.
• Deep understanding of source control, package management, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and developer enablement tools.
• Knowledge of OAuth2, IAM, and API management strategies.
• Excellent communication skills for working across technical and executive audiences; ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence enterprise standards.

Desired Characteristics:

• Thought leadership in platform engineering, AI-enhanced development, or developer productivity.
• Experience as a Cloud Solutions Architect, or similar role
• Relevant Cloud / IT certifications
• Rest API design, implementation, usage, debugging, and documentation
• Service mesh / service discovery
• PKI certificate management
• Agile methodologies, image pipelines, CI/CD, SDLC
• Contribution to open-source projects
• Proficiency writing and debugging code in Python and/or Go
• Expertise in design principles for scalability, performance, and reliability

Additional Requirements:

• Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $180,000 - $220,000 (bonus and long-term incentive eligible)

We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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