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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal AI Software Engineer, GTM - **Company:** Optum, Inc - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $194,000.0 - $263,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Amazon DynamoDB, Github, PostgreSQL, Operational Data Store, Open Source Technology, Redis, Salesforce.Com, Search Technologies, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Systems Integration, TypeScript, AWS Cdk, Data Logging, Data Ingestion, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Cypress (Programming Language), Cloudformation, Fastapi, Build Management, Amazon Relational Database Service, Data Lakes, AI Platforms, Kubernetes, AWS Fargate, Front End Software Development, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, JestJS, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Docker, Amazon Redshift - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brightwheel/583f6ae7-4e7d-488c-9c03-d32096e11f0d ## About the Role * Have 8+ years of professional software engineering experience. * Have strong engineering fundamentals and can reason across systems, data, APIs, product surfaces, and infrastructure. * Have owned production work from problem definition through launch and iteration. * Use AI tools and agents as a real part of your engineering workflow, not as a novelty. * Can explain how you have increased your own velocity without lowering your quality bar. * Have examples of automating your own work, your team's work, or broader company workflows. * Are comfortable operating in ambiguity and turning unclear problems into shipped software. * Communicate clearly and work well across functions. * Care deeply about privacy, security, reliability, and customer trust. Strong candidates may also have * Experience shipping AI-powered products, workflows, or internal tools to production. * Experience with retrieval, tool use, evaluation, monitoring, orchestration, or agent workflows. * Experience in vertical SaaS, education, fintech, healthcare, CRM, ecommerce, or another operations-heavy domain. * A portfolio of personal projects, internal tools, open-source work, writing, demos, or side projects that shows builder energy and taste. * Experience building AI powered systems * Experience collaborating with internal customers; not only building out what is asked, but building out novel solutions that amplify those customers' capabilities (thinking creatively to meet business objectives) ## Description Our team is passionate, talented, and deeply customer-focused. We build the platform that thousands of early education programs rely on every day to run their business, serve families, and support children's growth. As a vertical SaaS company, brightwheel already sits in the middle of all the key workflows in early education: enrollment, billing, staffing, classroom planning, and family communication. We are now extending that foundation into a system of action - where software not only records what happened, but also anticipates work, recommends next steps, and takes safe, automated action on behalf of school leaders, teachers, families, and our internal teams., We're looking for an AI-native software engineer to join our GTM engineering team. This role is for someone who wants to make a direct impact upon the bottom line. You will design and build AI solutions to solve the challenges internal teams wrestle with on a daily basis. You will build products that allow our go-to-market team to operate at peak performance-delivering the right information at the right time. You will build solutions that allow AI agents to take action on operational data, accelerating the operations of internal teams. You will lead by example in AI-augmented engineering, using AI to multiply your own speed, mentoring other engineers, and raising the bar for how we design, ship, and operate AI-powered features. The best candidates do not wait for perfect requirements. They prototype quickly, validate assumptions with users or internal teams, define success metrics, and iterate in production. They use AI agents, coding tools, scripts, and automation to move faster, while raising the bar for quality, reliability, privacy, security, and customer trust. What you'll do * Own meaningful problems from discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. * Use AI to improve both how you build and what brightwheel can deliver. * Prototype quickly, validate assumptions, and use working software to create clarity. * Raise the bar for quality, reliability, security, privacy, observability, and execution. * Design and build cross-cutting AI services (such as retrieval, context, evaluation, and guardrails) that power go-to-market operational workflows, optimizing the efficacy of internal teams. * As a hybrid PM+Eng+Data builder: own the end-to-end product loop for the problems you take on: talk to customers and internal teams, define the success metric, design the workflow and user experience, shape the data and evaluation plan, and ship iterative releases from prototype to reliable, scalable production. * Create shared abstractions and tooling for AI - for example, common prompt and tool patterns, logging and monitoring, and reusable components - so other engineers can build on a consistent foundation. * Shape our data and system architecture so AI can safely stitch together longitudinal signals across product, billing, support, and operations and recommend what should happen next, not just report what happened., * AI and Automation: AWS Bedrock and Bedrock AgentCore, other hosted large language models, LangChain and LangGraph agent orchestration, vector and semantic search, LangFuse, and modern AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex * Backend: Python with FastAPI, async workers and queue-driven jobs * Data: PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Redis, DynamoDB, and large-scale entity resolution, enrichment, and ingestion pipelines * Frontend: React with TypeScript, TanStack Query, Vitest and Cypress * Data Engineering and Integrations: Airflow, headless Chrome, S3-backed data lakes, and deep Salesforce integration alongside other GTM systems * Cloud and Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes on Amazon EKS, ECS Fargate, AWS CDK and CloudFormation, GitHub Actions and FluxCD for CI/CD, and AWS services such as S3, CloudFront, Lambda, SQS, and CloudWatch, Artificial Intelligence * Big Data * Healthtech * Information Technology * Machine Learning * Software * Analytics Leads complex cybersecurity due diligence programs across mergers, acquisitions, and integrations. Coordinates architects, engineers, legal teams, and business leaders; translates technical findings into executive recommendations; develops governance structures, dashboards, KPIs, and status reporting; facilitates risk decisions; and improves assessment processes. The role requires extensive technical program leadership, cybersecurity knowledge, risk management, executive communication, and advanced visual storytelling skills. Top Skills: Architecture DiagramsCis ControlsCloud SecurityCloud TechnologiesCybersecurityDashboardsData ProtectionData VisualizationEndpoint SecurityEnterprise It InfrastructureIdentity And Access ManagementIso 27001Network SecurityNist 800-53Nist CsfProcess MappingSecurity OperationsSoc 2Vulnerability Management What you need to know about the Colorado Tech Scene With a business-friendly climate and research universities like CU Boulder and Colorado State, Colorado has made a name for itself as a startup ecosystem. The state boasts a skilled workforce and high quality of life thanks to its affordable housing, vibrant cultural scene and unparalleled opportunities for outdoor recreation. Colorado is also home to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, helping cement its status as a hub for renewable energy innovation. Key Facts About Colorado Tech * Number of Tech Workers: 260,000; 8.5% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey) * Major Tech Employers: Lockheed Martin, Century Link, Comcast, BAE Systems, Level 3 * Key Industries: Software, artificial intelligence, aerospace, e-commerce, fintech, healthtech * Funding Landscape: $4.9 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook) * Notable Investors: Access Venture Partners, Ridgeline Ventures, Techstars, Blackhorn Ventures * Research Centers and Universities: Colorado School of Mines, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Denver, Colorado State University, Mesa Laboratory, Space Science Institute, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Gottlieb Institute ## Related Videos - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [Building Products in the era of GenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/827-building-products-in-the-era-of-genai) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [The New Org Chart: When AI Joins the Workforce](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100036-the-new-org-chart-when-ai-joins-the-workforce) ## Related Articles - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care) - [Transforming Software Development: The Role of AI and Developer Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/527-transforming-software-development-the-role-of-ai-and-developer-tools)