Hybrid Principal Engineer – Software Development

at Verizon

• Job title: Principal Engineer – Software Development
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $120,500 - $231,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, J2EE, Java, Linux, Oracle, Perl, Shell Scripting, SQL, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Alpharetta, United States

About the role

• Principal Engineer at Verizon leading design, development, and support of Wholesale suite of applications. Collaborating with resellers and internal teams to ensure customer experience and system compliance.

Responsibilities

• Leading discussions with the business and resellers to determine the requirements and design of large-scale software systems and services.
• As a technical and functional Domain expert, you will be responsible for building mission critical solutions for Wholesale channels and internal Verizon business users.
• Assessing the solution's compliance and consistency with all established Reseller agreements and contracts.
• Determining the structure, design, and scope of the Wholesale systems with a deep understanding of enterprise application architecture.
• Being responsible for performance tuning of mission critical applications to ensure Reseller SLAs are met.
• Identifying and proposing technical solutions in high-pressure situations.
• Supporting the production rollout of enhancements, including validation and resolution of post-production issues.
• Engaging with both internal and external stakeholders, Vendor partners and business teams.
• Troubleshooting, Debugging and triaging customer issues.
• Partnering with key cross-functional stakeholders including Wholesale, Revenue Assurance, Finance, Network, GTS, and external customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in programming, Operational support, Database Technologies with large database (250 TB+).
• Experience with strong Oracle PL/SQL: packages, procedures, functions, triggers, views, complex SQL, performance tuning.
• Experience with Unix/Linux, Perl, Shell scripting.
• Telecom experience especially with Billing applications.
• Experience in Cloud technologies especially Oracle Cloud.
• Experience in JAVA/J2EE technologies.
• Experience in using AI tools - CoPilot, Generative AI and Agentic AI.
• Experience with Operations & support: incident triage, RCA, SLAs, monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of information systems.
• Agile Software development process & applicable methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision
• short and long term disability
• basic life insurance
• supplemental life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• identity theft protection
• pet insurance
• group home & auto insurance
• matched 401(k) savings plan
• company paid holidays
• personal days
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance
• tuition assistance