Principal Software Engineer: Scale, Architecture & AI
American Airlines
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Job summary
American Airlines in Fort Worth, TX seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, test, and deploy scalable systems across product domains. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software that integrates with security and compliance requirements in an airline environment.
The role emphasizes leadership, technical debt reduction, and adoption of modern containerized deployments, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and influence architectural decisions.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- 9+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- Airline Industry experience
Responsibilities
- Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
- Solves technical problems and builds components/libraries with far-ranging impact
- Delivers high quality work and coaches more junior engineers on technical craftsmanship
- Conducts root cause analysis to identify systemic problems and defines and leads execution of action items to address
- Designs thoughtfully integrated systems that model organizational best practices, allowing disparate teams across product domains to deliver value with speed, scale, and reliability
- Oversees the management of technical debt in existing systems and drives opportunities to eliminate within ongoing implementations
- Consistently anticipates scaling, latency, and durability challenges and guides teams in implementation of mitigating strategies
- Partners with the security organization to incorporate security conscious practices early in the lifecycle of new systems
- Thoughtfully evaluates technical risks and guides toward practical prevention strategies
- Consistently reflects on squad delivery practices throughout their span of of influence, recommends improvements to leadership and drives their implementation
- Maintains a focus on removing the duplication of effort across teams and proactively identifies opportunities for reuse within their span of influence
- Thoughtfully measures and assesses team and identifies areas of development for individuals
- Explores emerging technologies, leads development of prototypes with little or no guidance and incorporates into architectural solutions where appropriate
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Job description
American Airlines in Fort Worth, TX seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, test, and deploy scalable systems across product domains. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software that integrates with security and compliance requirements in an airline environment.
The role emphasizes leadership, technical debt reduction, and adoption of modern containerized deployments, with opportunities to mentor junior engineers and influence architectural decisions.
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