Principal Software Engineer, Developer Tools & Productivity

PNC; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC is seeking a Software Engineer Principal to join the Developer Tools Team in Pittsburgh. This hands-on role focuses on modernizing the developer ecosystem, reducing friction, and delivering practical solutions that boost productivity across languages like C#, Java, Python, and Node.js.

You will help expand technical capacity and drive enterprise adoption of new tools and practices. The position emphasizes technical depth, collaboration with communities, and leadership in solving complex

Qualifications

• Aligns business and technology strategy with software solutions.
• Proposes, designs, and codes software solutions to address complex engineering and business needs.
• Provides technical leadership across development technologies including C#, Java, Python, Node.js, associated frameworks, development environments, plugins, and extensions.
• Improves how development languages, frameworks, packages, tools, and extensions are evaluated, approved, packaged, distributed, upgraded, and supported.
• Evaluates major releases and emerging development capabilities and helps establish sustainable approaches for enterprise adoption.
• Identifies and removes friction in developer environments and workflows.
• Builds and improves reference architectures, reusable solutions, prototypes, and developer productivity tools.
• Contributes to Inner Source repositories and communities, helping increase reuse and collaboration across development teams.
• Partners with developer community efforts to translate the voice of the developer into practical improvements in tools, platforms, processes, and engineering practices.
• Builds and explore solutions focused on AI-assisted development, automation, and developer productivity.
• Leads complex technical problem solving and provides technical guidance and hands‑on support to development teams.
• Apply modern engineering principles, technologies, and tools to advance developer capabilities and software delivery.

Responsibilities

• Aligns business and technology strategy with software solutions and developer enablement capabilities.
• Proposes, designs, and codes software solutions to address complex engineering and business needs.
• Provides technical leadership across development technologies including C#, Java, Python, Node.js, associated frameworks, development environments, plugins, and extensions.
• Improves how development languages, frameworks, packages, tools, and extensions are evaluated, approved, packaged, distributed, upgraded, and supported.
• Evaluates major releases and emerging development capabilities and helps establish sustainable approaches for enterprise adoption.
• Identifies and removes friction in developer environments and workflows.
• Builds and improves reference architectures, reusable solutions, prototypes, and developer productivity tools.
• Contributes to Inner Source repositories and communities, helping increase reuse and collaboration across development teams.

Job description

PNC is seeking a Software Engineer Principal to join the Developer Tools Team in Pittsburgh. This hands-on role focuses on modernizing the developer ecosystem, reducing friction, and delivering practical solutions that boost productivity across languages like C#, Java, Python, and Node.js.

You will help expand technical capacity and drive enterprise adoption of new tools and practices. The position emphasizes technical depth, collaboration with communities, and leadership in solving complex