Principal Software Engineer – AI-Driven, Large-Scale Systems

Siteimprove; København; Hybrid; DKK 1,600,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Danica pension

Internet allowance

Generous leave

Job summary

Siteimprove is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape technical direction for its Search Insights team. You will own system designs, build scalable services and data pipelines, and drive AI-enabled product delivery across Europe and North America.

The role demands leadership across teams, deep software design knowledge, and a track record of end-to-end feature ownership. We value experience with cloud native systems and infrastructure as code, plus strong English communication.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years building and running services on a public cloud, preferably AWS.
• Track record of architecture decisions spanning several teams.
• Hands on experience with coding agents in production work.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical direction of the team and design system architectures.
• Design and build services, APIs and data pipelines scalable with data growth.
• Lead the use of AI across the product development lifecycle.
• Improve scaffolding for agent-driven delivery including prompts and skills.
• Ensure trustworthiness of search data with tests and monitoring.
• Define quality metrics, detect drift, and explain results to customers.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and proposals.
• Consider cost, performance and operability from the start.
• Participate in refinement, estimation, prototyping, debugging and production support.

Skills

System design

Architecture decisions

Cloud AWS

Kubernetes

AI integration

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Terraform

Docker

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Job description

Siteimprove is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to shape technical direction for its Search Insights team. You will own system designs, build scalable services and data pipelines, and drive AI-enabled product delivery across Europe and North America.

The role demands leadership across teams, deep software design knowledge, and a track record of end-to-end feature ownership. We value experience with cloud native systems and infrastructure as code, plus strong English communication.