Pika
Principal Software Engineer, Product
US remote · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; substantial time in senior/principal engineering and product-focused roles.
About the job
Leads the technical vision and delivery of Pika’s user-facing web and multi-platform creative products, including collaboration features and generative AI workflows.
What you'll do
- Define architecture and technical strategy for web and multi-platform products; lead features from conception through launch and iteration.
- Develop real-time collaboration, messaging, and live multi-user interactions, and integrate generative AI workflows into creative tools.
- Guide engineering quality through architecture reviews and mentorship, and improve metrics, tracing, and observability.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including substantial time in senior/principal engineering and product-focused roles.
- Track record leading the design, execution, and scaling of high-impact web or mobile products.
- Expertise in systems design, distributed systems, scalable APIs, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
- Cross-stack experience, including ML/AI infrastructure such as Python and GPU-backed workflows, as required.
Nice to have
- Experience with generative AI, agentic workflows, or ML inference platforms (Python/PyTorch).
- Creative background or expertise in media-rich and real-time collaboration applications.
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, Go, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Integrates generative AI workflows, including LLMs, models, and agentic tools, into creative products; may work across ML/AI infrastructure and GPU-backed workflows.
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