Shipt

Principal Engineer

Shipt
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1 day ago
Minneapolis, MN, USA or San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deploy Shipt’s foundational Agentic AI platform for real-time routing, pay, and coverage.
  • Build and integrate LLM-powered autonomous reasoning loops, tool binding frameworks, and multi-agent orchestration into high-throughput microservices.
  • Design AI architectures that integrate with existing production systems, real-time signal streams, and complex persisted data models.
  • Manage agent lifecycle processes including registration, approvals, role-based access control, identity, and compliance standards.
  • Design offline and online evaluations, reliability metrics, business-impact measurements, and human-in-the-loop escalation triggers.
  • Monitor and optimize agent token utilization, cost per execution, and overall AI initiative ROI.
  • Own production services and observability, including tracing and debugging of agentic reasoning chains.
  • Lead technical discussions, drive consensus, deliver projects on time, and mentor staff and senior engineers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of backend software development experience architecting and operating high-throughput, multi-region distributed microservices.
  • Experience coding in Python or Golang.
  • Experience with SOA, microservices, and distributed architectures.
  • Ability to lead technical discussions, communicate complex concepts clearly, drive consensus, and ensure delivery.
  • Strong mentorship abilities for developing staff and senior engineers into future leaders.
  • Experience building and deploying LLM-based systems beyond simple chat interfaces.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, agent definition, tool binding, reasoning loops, memory systems, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Experience with agent FinOps, agent lifecycle management, evaluation strategies, and role-based access control.
  • Proficiency with Google ADK, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or similar orchestration platforms.
  • Familiarity with vector storage and retrieval for RAG or memory implementations.
  • Experience integrating AI agents with real-time signals such as location, weather, and inventory.
  • Experience with agentic tracing and debugging tools such as LangSmith or Langfuse.
  • Preferred experience with machine learning and data science modeling and optimization techniques and DataDog observability tooling.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with location-specific in-office expectations, generally one or two days per week depending on office.
  • Medical, dental, vision, and additional employee and eligible-family-member benefits.
  • 401(k) plan eligibility.
  • Discretionary vacation for exempt team members, paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
  • Eligibility for an annual bonus and potential restricted stock units based on role.

Tech Stack

DatadogGoPython
Shipt

About Shipt

1,001-5,000 employees

Through a community of shoppers and a convenient app, Shipt provides personal shopping and delivery and is available to 80% of households in more than 5,000 U.S. cities. Shoppers go above and beyond, communicating in real time about preferences and substitutions. A curated marketplace of retailers, Shipt offers access to a variety of stores and product categories including fresh foods, household essentials, wellness products, office and pet supplies. Shipt is an independently operated, wholly owned subsidiary of Target Corp. Founded and headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, Shipt also maintains an office in San Francisco. For more information, visit Shipt.com.

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