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Principal Full Stack Developer & Solutions Architect – AI, Data & Cloud

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Pay not postedSan Jose, CAOn-sitePrincipal

Own end-to-end architecture and hands-on delivery of AI, data analytics, cloud, and full-stack solutions for Western Digital’s Product Development engineering organization.

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At a glance

Posted base pay

Not posted

The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance

  1. Mostly building
  2. Mixed
  3. Mostly pre-sales or support

Project stages

  1. Pre-sales (not covered)
  2. Proof of concept
  3. Implementation
  4. Operations (not covered)
Coding
Writes production code
Builds for
Internal teams
Level
Staff+
Role
Technical lead

What they ask for

Experience

  • 8+ yearsprofessional software engineering experience, including production ownership of systems designed

Background

  • Software engineering

Tools

  • Python
  • SQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • LangGraph
  • Langflow
  • MCP
  • RAG
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes/EKS

Less common in FDE jobs

  • Who you build for: Internal teams14%
  • Responsibility level: Staff+17%
  • Company stage: Public28%
  • Company size: About 5,000+ people35%

Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.

What you’ll do

  • Architect end-to-end AI, data, cloud, and full-stack solutions for Product Development use cases.
  • Design agent systems, evaluation methods, quality gates, routing policies, and guardrails.
  • Build production applications spanning backend services, APIs, data access, orchestration, and user interfaces.
  • Establish reference architectures, technology standards, deployment patterns, and governance-aligned designs.

What you’ll bring

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with production ownership.
  • End-to-end solution architecture experience across application, data, cloud, or AI domains.
  • Strong Python and SQL plus React/TypeScript, Streamlit, or Gradio capability.
  • Experience building LLM applications with orchestration frameworks, tool/function calling, MCP integrations, and RAG.

About Western Digital

WD designs and manufactures HDD-based storage infrastructure for hyperscalers, enterprises, creative pros, and consumers, differentiated by scale, reliability, and AI-era capacity roadmaps.

Public · 5000+ people

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
Pay not posted
Location
San Jose, CA
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time
Experience requirements
  • 8+ years: professional software engineering experience, including production ownership of systems designed (required)

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