SoFi · 22 hours ago
Senior Principal Software Engineer, Applied Generative AI
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$224K/yr - $385K/yr
15+ years expSoFi is a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative technology to help members reach their goals. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will provide AI leadership and influence the AI enablement strategy, collaborating with engineering and data science leaders to drive innovation and improve developer productivity.
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Responsibilities
Provide thought leadership around enabling and applying AI across the company
Serve as a key strategic technical advisor to engineering and select business leadership, influencing roadmaps, participating in planning sessions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive innovation and advancements in AI assisted developer productivity flows
Be a subject matter expert, role model practitioner across the developer tooling domain including operational excellence. Drive observability strategy and practices, including SLOs, and guiding teams on critical incident resolution, root-cause analysis and remediation
Collaborate with engineers across the Platform organization, provide mentorship, and expertise to enhance the overall technical capabilities of teams
Contribute to creating a culture of continuous learning, data-driven decisions and improvements. Proactively identify and manage risks
Build strong working relationships with coworkers, cross-organizational leaders, including engineering managers and product managers
Be a change agent influencing and scaling the adoption of AI-enabled developer tooling and best practices across the engineering organization
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field
15+ years of software development experience
Significant experience in the last several years applying Generative AI in software development and for end users, ideally in the context of a medium or large enterprise
Expertise in public cloud platforms (AWS is preferred), containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), and related technologies
Deep understanding of modern development practices and CI/CD and how AI can change and improve on these practices to increase both quality and velocity
Familiarity with ‘agentic' architectures including SDKs, context engineering, MCPs, authorization
Full stack 'operator': ability to both create and execute the business and product strategy; with clear objectives, but limited, ambiguous, or varied direction
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Company
SoFi
SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$12.25BKey Investors
Fortress Investment GroupPGIMQatar Investment Authority
2025-12-04Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-07-29Post Ipo Equity· $1.5B
2025-04-17Post Ipo Debt· $3.2B
Leadership Team
Anthony Noto
CEO
Jeremy Rishel
Chief Technology Officer
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