Sr Staff Software Engineer

Blue Yonder is a leading AI-driven global supply chain solutions software product company, recognized as one of Glassdoor’s and Texas’s “Best Places to Work.” With over a decade of experience in implementing AI, our solutions empower organizations to enhance agility, accelerate global expansion, and achieve business objectives. Our 2025 focus includes enhancing AI and ML architecture for faster, more impactful decision-making, integrating AI to build resilient supply chains, transforming work through automation, and advancing sustainability by optimizing resources. We are also revolutionizing the retail industry by improving planning, operations, demand forecasting, inventory management, fulfillment, and customer experience with personalized shopping and real-time insights.

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead a team of product engineers in designing, developing, and implementing AI-driven solutions at Blue Yonder. In this role, you will provide strategic technical leadership for our Generative AI initiatives, shape the architectural direction of our AI systems, lead complex engineering challenges, and drive innovation across our technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Establish the technical vision and architectural foundations for our generative AI platforms and products.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex, large-scale AI systems that push technical boundaries.
• Design and build scalable, high-performance solutions.
• Optimize inference pipelines to reduce latency and improve efficiency.
• Build distributed AI systems that handle high-throughput workloads.
• Mentor engineering leaders and senior engineers, elevating the technical capabilities of the organization.
• Identify and solve systemic engineering challenges across model training, deployment, and monitoring.
• Establish technical standards, best practices, and architectural patterns for AI engineering.
• Drive technical alignment with product management and UX on roadmap and deliverables.

Our Current Technical Environment

• Software/Tools: Python, GitHub, Node.js, React.js, GitHub Actions, Codacy, GitHub Advance Security, Black Duck Hub, BlazeMeter, Artifactory, Ansible, Docker.
• Application Architecture: Scalable, resilient, event-driven, secure multi-tenant microservices architecture.
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD).
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NoSQL, RDBMS, Spring Boot, Snowflake.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (STEM preferred) and minimum 12 to 15 years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years as a Software Architect.
• Strong programming experience and background in Enterprise Python (preferred) or Java, Spring Boot, and microservices-based architecture.
• Demonstrable experience designing, building, deploying, and maintaining enterprise cloud solutions (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with microservices-based architecture on cloud at scale.
• Experience with implementation of event-driven architecture using Kafka, Spark, or similar technologies.
• Hands-on development skills along with architecture/design experience; should not have moved away from software development.
• Demonstrable experience, thorough knowledge, and interest in cloud-native architecture, distributed microservices, multi-tenant SaaS solutions, and cloud scalability, performance, and high availability.
• Experience with API management platforms and providing/consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience with tools such as Spring Boot, OAuth, REST, GraphQL, Hibernate, NoSQL, RDBMS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React.
• Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and infrastructure automation.
• Good understanding of secure architectures, secure configuration, identity management, role-based access control, authentication and authorization, and data encryption.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and strategic thinking abilities.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $152,889 - $190,000. The range reflects the anticipated base salary based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary by location. Individual salary will be commensurate with skills, experience, certifications or licenses, and other relevant factors. This role is also eligible to participate in either the annual performance bonus or commission program, determined by the nature of the position.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401K with matching.
• Flexible time off.
• Corporate fitness program.
• A variety of voluntary benefits, including legal plans, accident and hospital indemnity, and pet insurance.

Blue Yonder is committed to a workplace that fosters inclusion and belonging, where everyone can share their unique voices and talents in a safe space. We are an equal opportunity employer and embrace professional, personal, educational, and volunteer opportunities through which people gain experience.