Principal IT Software Developer
SAS Software3 days ago
Cary, NC, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy, architecture, and hands-on development of secure cloud automation across services, environments, and enterprise systems.
- Lead build, deployment, provisioning, configuration, user lifecycle, fleet-management, recovery, and decommissioning workflows.
- Apply AI-first engineering, intelligent agents, and automated workflows to development, validation, troubleshooting, and operational tasks.
- Improve reliability through automated testing, observability, failure detection, diagnosis, remediation, retry, cleanup, recovery, and fallback paths.
- Lead integrations across cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, APIs, workflow orchestration, internal services, and enterprise systems.
- Translate business, customer, operational, security, and regulatory requirements into reusable, governed, documented automation.
- Coordinate delivery across distributed teams, mentor engineers and technical leads, and resolve architectural risks, dependencies, ownership gaps, and operational weaknesses.
Requirements
- US citizenship is required.
- At least 12 years of experience delivering production software, automation services, and cloud workflows across multiple systems, environments, service portfolios, and engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical strategy and architecture while remaining hands-on in development, integration, troubleshooting, and delivery.
- Strong experience with software architecture, APIs, workflow orchestration, cloud automation, infrastructure as code, and reusable service design.
- Experience designing and supporting cloud provisioning, deployment, lifecycle management, recovery, and decommissioning workflows.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI development tools, intelligent agents, or automated decision support into software delivery and operations.
- Understanding of security, governance, validation, observability, auditability, cost, and human-oversight requirements for production AI automation.
- Ability to diagnose distributed-system and workflow failures and design safe, observable, automated recovery processes.
- Ability to lead technical decisions and coordinate delivery across distributed teams and stakeholder groups, including regulated or access-restricted environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including architecture, decision, ownership, procedure, risk, and support documentation.
- Preferred experience includes public, hybrid, or multi-cloud infrastructure automation; AI agents and multi-agent orchestration; AI automation evaluation and governance; self-service automation and service-management integrations; legacy workflow modernization; and production cloud service support.
- An equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience may be considered.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans, including PPO and HDHP options.
- Health savings account contributions, an onsite healthcare center and pharmacy for eligible employees, and prescription shipping for employees not local to headquarters.
- Industry-leading 401(k) plan.
- Tuition assistance and development programs and resources.
- Vacation, paid holidays, a U.S. Winter Wellness Break from December 25 through January 1, Volunteer Time Off, parental leave, and unlimited paid sick days.
- Generous childcare benefits for full-time employees.