Principal Engineer, IT Software
Job Description
**Intro**
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Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and duringyour time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
**Why you'll love this job**
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* As one diverse, high\-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
* The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security \& compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.
**What you'll do**
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*As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non\-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.*
* 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
**All you'll need for success**
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**Minimum Qualifications – Education \& Prior Job Experience**
* 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
**Preferred Qualifications – Education \& Prior Job Experience**
* 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
**Skills, Licenses, and Certifications**
* Proficiency with the following technologies:
* Programming Languages: Java, Python, C\#, Javascript/Typescript
* Frameworks: Spring/SpringBoot, FastAPI
* Front End Technologies: Angular/React
* Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
* Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
* CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
* Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
* Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL
* Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
* Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
* Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity
* Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams
* Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases
* Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities
* Ability to combines deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancin
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Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and duringyour time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
**Why you'll love this job**
----------------------------
* As one diverse, high\-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
* The Software domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the development, deployment, management, and maintenance of software applications that support business processes and user needs. This includes development, application lifecycle management, requirement analysis, QA, security \& compliance, and maintaining the applications and infrastructure.
**What you'll do**
------------------
*As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non\-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.*
* 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
**All you'll need for success**
-------------------------------
**Minimum Qualifications – Education \& Prior Job Experience**
* 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
**Preferred Qualifications – Education \& Prior Job Experience**
* 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
**Skills, Licenses, and Certifications**
* Proficiency with the following technologies:
* Programming Languages: Java, Python, C\#, Javascript/Typescript
* Frameworks: Spring/SpringBoot, FastAPI
* Front End Technologies: Angular/React
* Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
* Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps
* CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps
* Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
* Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL
* Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS
* Test Automation: Selenium, TestNG, Postman, SonarQube, Cypress, JUnit/NUnit/PyTest, Cucumber, Playwright, Wiremock/Mockito/Moq
* Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity
* Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams
* Ability to optimize system designs spanning multiple teams to allow small, safe, incremental releases
* Ability to work through others by cooperatively sharing responsibilities
* Ability to combines deep knowledge of a product domain with awareness of advancin
Posted: 2026-05-01