Principal Software Engineer | Xbox Media (San Francisco, CA)
King Digital Entertainment AB3 days ago
Base Salary
$171k - $317k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own engineering outcomes for organization-critical systems, platforms, or technical domains.
- Define and drive long-term technical direction across architecture, reliability, cost, security, velocity, and organizational adoption.
- Align engineering leadership, product leadership, and adjacent organizations around technical direction.
- Create systems, practices, and frameworks that improve delivery, reliability, learning, and engineering leverage.
- Guide sequencing and risk management for consequential technical initiatives.
- Develop Staff-level engineers and emerging technical leaders through mentorship, design reviews, and engineering standards.
- Lead organization-wide technical standards, architecture direction, hiring calibration, and major platform evolution.
Requirements
- Significant professional software engineering experience, including substantial experience designing and operating large-scale, high-reliability distributed systems.
- Demonstrated ability to set broad-domain technical direction and drive it to outcomes.
- Strong backend engineering depth in service architecture, APIs, data modeling, reliability engineering, and production operations at scale.
- Experience making high-stakes architecture decisions with company-wide or multi-team consequences.
- Ability to evaluate and communicate trade-offs involving scalability, reliability, cost, security, delivery velocity, and organizational adoption.
- Proven experience developing senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.
- Strong working knowledge of Go, GCP, Cloud Run, GKE, and distributed data systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for design documents, executive forums, and engineering discussions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings or reimbursement accounts, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care accounts, life and disability insurance.
- 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, and charitable donation matching.
- Paid holidays, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leave, and parental leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and other voluntary benefit programs.
- Relocation assistance may be available when the company requires geographic relocation.
- Hybrid work arrangement with the home office in San Francisco, California.
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About King Digital Entertainment AB
King Digital Entertainment AB builds free-to-play mobile games for a global consumer audience, best known for the Candy Crush franchise and Farm Heroes Saga, with over 200 million monthly players. Its business model centers on in-app purchases and advertising, supported by large-scale live operations. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Stockholm, King is a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, now part of Microsoft.