Principal Software Development Engineer

AMD; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

AMD is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer in Vancouver to design, build, and evolve secure, reliable AI infrastructure applications and tools for deploying ML/LLM workloads on cloud and GPU infrastructure.

You will combine hands-on full-stack engineering with leadership, influence roadmap, and drive quality, operability, and developer experience across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong Python and modern JavaScript/TypeScript with API/service design.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, cloud, and data-store experience (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

Responsibilities

• Own and drive design of complex, data-heavy backend services and user-facing applications for AI/GPU workflows.
• Set and evolve architectural direction for Kubernetes toolchain, APIs and UIs enabling core AI workflows; ensure security and scalability.
• Mentor and uplift engineers via design reviews, code reviews, and coaching to grow technical judgment.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Kubernetes

API design

Cloud

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Git

Job description

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.

ADVANCE YOUR CAREER. ADVANCE THE WORLD.

At AMD, we believe technology can change lives for the better. It can heal us, entertain us, and make us more connected, productive, and understanding of the world around us. And we’re looking for talent who feel the same: people who want to leave the planet better than they found it, those who don’t shy away from humanity’s challenges but are determined to help solve them.

AMD is powering the next generation of supercomputing, high-performance computing, cloud, and AI. Whether you’re designing next-gen processors, enabling AI breakthroughs, or creating go-to-market plans, every role at AMD contributes to something bigger — technology that moves the world forward.

The Role

AMD is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer to join the AMD Silo AI Enterprise applications and platform engineering organization. You will design, build, and evolve secure, reliable AI infrastructure applications and tools that help customers deploy, run and scale ML and LLM workloads on modern cloud and GPU infrastructure.

The Person

At this level you combine hands-on full-stack engineering with technical and strategic leadership: you influence roadmap and architecture, partner with product and customers, and raise the bar for quality, operability, and developer experience across teams.

Tech context (indicative): Kubernetes, Python, Go, relational and document data stores (e.g. PostgreSQL, MongoDB), AMD GPU hardware, CI/CD and observability.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & architecture

• Own and drive design of complex, data-heavy backend services and user-facing applications for AI/GPU and platform workflows (Kubernetes, APIs, integrations).
• Set and evolve architectural direction for Kubernetes toolchain, APIs and UIs enabling core AI workflows; ensure security, scalability, and maintainability under real customer load.
• Optimize systems for efficiency, performance and reliability; debug and resolve cross-cutting production issues.
• Embed engineering excellence: code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and API/design standards across the teams you work with.

Product, customers & agility

• Influence Enterprise AI roadmap through deep understanding of customer needs, market direction, and technical feasibility; translating pain into prioritized engineering work.
• Interface with customers (and sales/customer success as needed): clarify requirements, manage expectations, and feed learnings back into the product/engineering loop.
• Lead initiatives from evolving requirements to shipped outcomes—decompose large problems into phases, owners, and measurable milestones.

Leadership & collaboration

• Lead technically and strategically across teams and drive complex issues (technical and organizational) to resolution.
• Drive AI-first development practices and continuously promote engineering efficiency using modern agent-driven software development methods.
• Represent engineering in roadmap and trade-off discussions with product, design, and platform, and align delivery with business and UX goals.
• Mentor and uplift engineers via design reviews, code reviews, and coaching to grow technical judgment and execution quality of the team.
• Stay current on cloud-native, Kubernetes, GPU/ML workflows, and LLM infrastructure trends and apply pragmatic choices to our stack and practices.

Preferred Experience

• Proven track record as a senior/principal-level full-stack or backend-leaning software engineer in cloud-deployed, data-intensive web applications.
• Strong Python and modern JavaScript/TypeScript and a major UI framework (React or equivalent); solid API and service design.
• Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, Git, and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestrated environments).
• Ability to work across functions (product, design, platform, GTM) with clear communication and stakeholder management.
• Agile delivery experience; comfort owning end-to-end design → implementation → deployment → support.
• Initiative, ownership, and collaboration; pragmatic problem-solving under constraints.
• Experience with GPU workloads, ML/LLM training or inference pipelines, or multi-tenant platform concerns.
• Customer-facing or field-adjacent engineering: discovery, technical scoping, or success of complex B2B deployments.
• Open-source or platform-ecosystem awareness (K8s operators, schedulers, observability stacks).
• Prior technical leadership: architecture decisions, cross-team initiatives, and growing engineers.

Academic Credentials

• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

LOCATION: Vancouver, British Columbia

Benefits offered are described: AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

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This posting is for an existing vacancy.