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Principal Software Engineer - Platform & AI Enablement

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As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and implement platform capabilities for data processing and AI enablement, mentor other engineers, and guide architectural and operational best practices.
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At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!

Team Description

As part of the Platform & AI Enablement team under GPTO Engineering, you’ll report to the Sr. Director Engineering API. This team is accountable for shaping enterprise data architecture, enabling high-performance AI-driven workloads, and acting as a technical bridge between engineering and architecture. This is a hands-on role for a deeply experienced engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and scaling robust platforms.

Your Impact

  • Influence the design and implementation of platform capabilities for data processing, AI enablement, and developer acceleration across batch, streaming, and real-time systems.
  • Collaborate with the architecture function to represent engineering needs and help translate architectural direction into practical implementation patterns.
  • Guide teams in integrating AI/ML capabilities—including prompt-based LLM use cases, model inference, and feature pipelines—into scalable platform services.
  • Bring a product mindset to platform engineering, ensuring solutions are aligned with customer and business goals.
  • Provide thought leadership across the fullstack (React, Java, Python), promoting clean, efficient, and maintainable code.
  • Identify and drive opportunities for innovation—whether in development tooling, performance optimization, or new platform features.
  • Act as a mentor to engineers across teams, elevating technical standards through code review, design input, and informal leadership.
  • Participate in incident retrospectives, technical spike planning, and future-looking strategy discussions.
  • Help teams balance speed and sustainability—delivering under tight deadlines without compromising quality.

Your Qualifications

  • Extensive background of software engineering experience, ideally in platform, infrastructure, or data-centric product development.
  • Expertise in Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and/or Apache Pulsar.
  • Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, data lakes, and streaming pipelines.
  • Strong experience integrating AI/ML models into production systems, including prompt engineering for LLMs.
  • Polyglot development capability, with hands-on experience in Java, Python, and modern frontend frameworks such as React.
  • Comfort working in cloud-agnostic and hybrid environments.
  • Familiar with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, and releasing at speed.
  • Strong communication skills—both technical and interpersonal—with the ability to influence without authority.
  • Experience working within or across globally distributed teams.

Preferred Skills

  • Help define the future of a data platform at scale
  • Work on cutting-edge AI/ML enablement initiatives
  • Collaborate with high-caliber teams across data, engineering, and product
  • Influence long-term technology strategy in a high-growth environment

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)

We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day! 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.  

Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer  

It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.  

Anaplan does not:  

  • Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.   
  • Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.  

All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to [email protected] before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.   


Top Skills

Apache Flink
Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
Ci/Cd
Java
Python
React

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