Principal Software Engineer, AI DevOps

Job description

Location

Lisbon, Portugal / Krakow, Poland Working Pattern: Fully Remote (Portugal); Hybrid (Poland) Join our AI Delivery & Engineering team and provide principal-level technical leadership for AI delivery, release engineering and operational readiness. You'll help ensure reusable AI assets and enterprise solutions are reliable and reproducible. Impact You'll Own Define DevOps standards for reusable AI assets and the solutions using them.

Strengthen delivery quality through reviews of supplier pipelines, infrastructure and deployment evidence. Guide decisions on environment strategy, automation, reliability, security, lead time and cost. Improve release traceability, artifact integrity, recovery and operational readiness. Advance reproducible delivery through controlled promotion, versioning and policy gates.

What You'll Do

Define standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, isolated environments and controlled promotion. Review supplier pipelines, infrastructure configurations, environment controls and deployment evidence. Guide partners on AI delivery patterns, automation trade-offs and approved asset reuse. Set expectations for version traceability across code, models, prompts, data, tools and runtime environments. Review artifact integrity, dependency controls, secrets management and evaluation gates.

Assess rollback, safe fallback, recovery, observability, alerting and support handover evidence. Turn findings, evaluation results and incidents into improved standards and reference patterns. Skills and Capabilities Must-haves Degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or a related discipline. Enterprise software engineering experience in cloud-native and distributed systems. Hands-on enterprise AI engineering and AI release lifecycle experience.

Deep knowledge of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release engineering and SRE practices. Experience with isolated environments, promotion controls and configuration versioning. Knowledge of model, prompt, data, retrieval, tool, asset and runtime traceability. Experience with artifact integrity, secrets management, policy gates and regression evidence. Knowledge of AI workload observability, availability, latency, cost, SLIs and SLOs.

Proven technical leadership through standards, reviews, supplier assurance and remediation. Strong communication, cross-team influence, mentoring and documentation skills. Nice-to-have Advanced study in AI/ML, distributed systems or cloud/platform engineering. Rewards and Benefits Permanent local contract with a competitive salary plus Tabaqueira employee benefits including: Life and Health insurance Employee Pension Plan 26 holiday days National and international growth opportunities Diverse and international work environment For Poland: In this position, you will earn no less than 327660 PLN gross per year.