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Principal Software Engineer / Principal AI Engineer - Commerce Platforms is a leadership role within the Commerce Platforms team, focusing on building scalable, resilient, and AI-powered commerce and finance systems. You will provide technical leadership to design and evolve cloud-native distributed systems, manage complex architectural trade-offs, and drive platform modernization efforts. Your daily work involves developing AI-powered capabilities, agentic workflows, LLM-enabled applications, and intelligent automation while ensuring high standards for security, reliability, and observability. The role requires expertise in C#, Java, Python, C++, or JavaScript, along with experience in cloud infrastructure like Azure. You will solve complex problems within the commerce domain, specifically addressing global payments, financial platforms, revenue systems, and offer management. By establishing reusable patterns and mentoring engineers, you will ensure the reliability of mission-critical systems that power a global commerce ecosystem.
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