Levi Strauss & Co. · 1 week ago
Principal Engineer, Shared Platforms & Services – AI Enablement
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$145K/yr - $241K/yr
12+ years expLevi Strauss & Co. is a company that encourages individuality and aims to make a positive impact. The Principal Engineer for Shared Platforms & Services will be responsible for evolving the core technology foundation that powers the company's digital ecosystem, leading the development of platforms and services while integrating AI to enhance engineering practices.
ApparelFashionLifestyleRetail
Responsibilities
Lead the evolution of modern engineering toolchains and practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, code review, observability, and infrastructure automation. Integrate generative/agentic AI to improve developer productivity, incident response, and software quality
Architect, develop, and mentor teams to build extensible, maintainable, and reusable platform components, frameworks, and shared services for an AI-powered future
Define and champion platform standards for reliability, scalability, reusability, simplicity, security, and responsible AI and data-privacy practices
Establish best practices for coding, integration, validation, and quality metrics, driving consistency and maintainability across teams
Lead adoption of domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, distributed systems, and modular platform patterns
Provide expert architectural guidance for complex engineering challenges, ensuring interoperable, domain-based, and scalable platform architecture
Champion engineering excellence through agile leadership, DevSecOps practices, platform-as-a-product principles, and data-informed decision-making
Stay ahead of platform, cloud, and AI/ML industry trends; lead experimentation and thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies
Partner across Engineering, Security, Production Support, Product Management, UX, and Commercial teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise needs
Influence stakeholders, drive platform adoption, and improve developer experience to accelerate product delivery
Foster a product-led, customer-centric culture rooted in reliability, scalability, and intuitive platform capabilities
Mentor and grow engineering talent, support hiring efforts, and cultivate expertise in platform engineering, AI, modern development practices and distributed systems
Communicate complex technical concepts clearly across audiences-building excitement and alignment around platform modernization and AI enablement
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in product, software, and/or platform engineering roles, with a strong focus on platform architecture, cloud technologies (GCP, Azure), distributed systems, and modern engineering toolchains
At least 4 years of experience focused on AI/ML, with deep expertise in generative and agentic AI and their application to modern engineering workflows
Unwavering customer-focused ethos, placing internal developers, platform customers and end consumers at the core of all decisions
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional engineering initiatives and working with geographically distributed teams across time zones
Mastery of modern SDLC practices, agile methodologies, CI/CD, DevSecOps, observability, and the broader DevOps movement, with demonstrated improvements to delivery performance
Demonstrable ability to drive architectural and operational decisions
Benefits
401(k) matching
Paid leave
Health insurance
Product discounts
And more designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life.
Company
Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. is a brand-name apparel company designs, markets, and sells jeans, casual and dress pants, jackets, skirts, and more.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$554.96M2025-07-15Post Ipo Debt· $554.96M
2019-03-20IPO
Leadership Team
Michelle Gass
CEO and President
Christopher Clark
SVP & CIO
Recent News
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