Principal Platform Engineer — AI‑Driven Content & Cloud

Pearson; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Job summary

Pearson is modernizing its content platform and you will be a principal engineer leading hands-on work across UI, workflow orchestration, AI and backend services. You will shape target systems, design migrations, and ensure safe content and user movement to new platforms.

You will own technical delivery across multiple tracks, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring security and reliability in a cloud-first environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years building and operating production software, including leadership at staff/principal level.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Full-stack depth in Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, React; MongoDB with event-driven services.

Responsibilities

• Own technical plan and delivery for multi-track migrations and large-scale initiatives.
• Migrate large content/data with integrity for downstream products.
• Provide shared capabilities exposed via clean APIs (media, search, AI content services).
• Maintain an honest, costed view of technical debt and prioritize fixes.
• Serve as technical point of contact for incidents with business impact.

Skills

12+ years production software

Java/Spring Boot

Node.js/TypeScript

React

MongoDB

Event-driven (SQS/SNS/Kafka)

AWS (ECS Fargate/Lambda/S3/API Gateway

Observability (New Relic/CloudWatch)

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Terraform / IaC

Design docs & migration plans

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

OpenSearch

Solr

Redis

Python (LLM features)

AWS Bedrock/Azure OpenAI

Job description

Pearson is modernizing its content platform and you will be a principal engineer leading hands-on work across UI, workflow orchestration, AI and backend services. You will shape target systems, design migrations, and ensure safe content and user movement to new platforms.

You will own technical delivery across multiple tracks, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while ensuring security and reliability in a cloud-first environment.