Principal Platform Engineer

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Principal Platform Engineer in USA

Stitch Fix
Full time
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USA
09/03/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end technical delivery of platform initiatives from discovery and design through implementation, rollout, and operational readiness.
Design and build scalable, observable, maintainable shared platform capabilities, APIs, gateways, and backend services.
Evaluate and prototype AI agents and automated workflows, turning them into safe and reusable platform tools.
Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and actionable feedback.
Deliver self-service tooling, automation, and continuous improvements that reduce manual and operationally expensive work.
Build and operate systems across Ruby/Rails, Python, Rust, React/TypeScript, GraphQL, and cloud infrastructure.
Evolve platforms so AI agents and automated systems can discover capabilities, execute actions, monitor outputs, and recover from failures safely.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating complex production systems in platform, infrastructure, backend, or developer tooling environments.
Deep experience with distributed architectures, microservices, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
Proficiency in Ruby/Rails, Python, or Rust.
Hands-on experience using and implementing AI-assisted engineering workflows, AI agents, LLM integrations, or Copilot.
Experience leading complex technical projects end to end, communicating tradeoffs, and influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
GraphQL, API gateway, React, and TypeScript experience is a nice-to-have.
Experience with e-commerce, personalization, large-scale retail engineering, self-service platform tools for AI agents, open-source software, technical whitepapers, or developer tooling communities is preferred.

Benefits

Competitive salary, benefits, equity, annual bonus eligibility, and potential restricted stock unit grants.
Medical, dental, vision, and other health and wellness benefits.
Inclusive workplace emphasizing diverse perspectives, innovation, integrity, trust, sustainability, and professional growth.

Salary: $125k - $209k/yr

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