Principal AI-Native Software Engineer – Production Impact

AT&T; Bothell (WA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Sick leave beyond state/local laws (un

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee discounts 50% on AT&T plans

Employee discounts on AT&T internet

Employee Wellness Programs

EAP (Employee Assistance Programs)

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to turn complex business needs into scalable, production-ready AI-powered software. You will design AI-enabled backend services, agentic workflows, and integrations with enterprise platforms, while ensuring security, observability, and reliability across production environments.

You will collaborate in a 2-in-a-box setup with business and tech peers, shaping technical designs and driving delivery in a fast-moving, enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs and backend architectures.
• Strong Python development experience with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade AI-enabled applications, backend services, and REST APIs.
• Create agentic AI workflows using LangGraph for multi-step routing and execution.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in a 2-in-a-box model to translate challenges into designs.
• Integrate AI applications securely with enterprise APIs, databases, and event streams.
• Define tool and service contracts with schemas, validation, idempotency, and access controls.
• Develop evaluation strategies for AI systems, including testing and guardrails.
• Implement RAG, vector search, grounding techniques to improve accuracy.
• Build end-to-end solutions across backend, databases, and frontend with Angular.
• Apply secure-by-design practices including authentication, secrets management, and least privilege.
• Develop observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and incident response.
• Automate testing, CI/CD, Docker deployment, and resilient distributed patterns.
• Use AI coding assistants across the lifecycle for code generation and testing.

Skills

Production-grade AI-enabled apps

Python development

REST APIs

LangGraph

AI-native software development

Security & observability

CI/CD & Docker

LLMs/Generative AI

Angular / front-end

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

Docker

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal AI-Native Software Engineer to turn complex business needs into scalable, production-ready AI-powered software. You will design AI-enabled backend services, agentic workflows, and integrations with enterprise platforms, while ensuring security, observability, and reliability across production environments.

You will collaborate in a 2-in-a-box setup with business and tech peers, shaping technical designs and driving delivery in a fast-moving, enterprise setting.