Principal Engineer
Aristocrat is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer with expertise in Software Development, System Invent, Integration, Security, Cloud Technologies, and AI-enabled solutions. The role requires technology proficiency in .NET, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, C++, and other skills necessary for developing enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have experience integrating AI capabilities into production and development systems, including API-based model usage, agentic AI patterns, and AI-assisted features with proper validation, monitoring, and guardrails. Experience with cloud-based deployments, automated infrastructure management, and modern DevOps practices is also necessary.
The candidate will build and lead product development that aligns with Aristocrat's strategic product roadmap, with a focus on implementation, scalability, reliability, and guidelines. This role will interact directly with Product Owners and development teams to lead the implementation of solutions that improve product performance, quality, processes, and standards.
As a Senior Software Architect, the individual will be responsible for ensuring that designs align with the system's technical roadmap while supporting secure, scalable cloud architectures and operational excellence. The role involves mentoring and guiding Associate Software Architects, Sr. and non-Sr. Software Engineers.
- Participate in defining technical product requirements and high-level architectural specifications, ensuring feasibility, functionality and integration with existing systems/platforms.
- Produce and ensure quality code artifacts.
- Ensure quality code is checked in to avoid broken builds that can cause delays to the team.
- Participate in scrum processes like estimating, grooming, standups, code reviews, test case reviews etc.
- Supports the development of strategy, frameworks, and standard processes and patterns for the development organization.
- Design and implement cloud-native deployment strategies, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD processes that support scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise application.
- Design and integrate agentic AI solutions that can autonomously plan, coordinate multi-step workflows, and take actions across systems while operating within defined business rules, validation controls, and security guardrails.
- Identify and fix code level problems quickly and efficiently.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Work with teams in other geographic locations. This includes being flexible with hours to accommodate other time zones.
- C# (8+ years) (required)
- .net Core (3+ years) (required)
- ADO.NET (5+ years) (required)
- GRPC (2+ years) (required)
- REST APIs (3+ years) (required)
- OAUTH/OIDC (5+ years) (required)
- Blazor (2+ years) (required)
- Containerization - Docker/K8S (3+ years) (required)
- C++ (5+ years) (required)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (required)
- Experience implementing AI-powered developer productivity solutions and engineering workflows (required)
- Experience deploying containerized AI workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (required)
- Understanding of AI security, observability, model monitoring, prompt management, and responsible AI practices (required)
- Build server administration and deployment automation experience, including CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance (required)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Terraform (preferred)
- Configuration management and deployment automation experience using Ansible (preferred)
- Visual Studio (required)
- Visual Studio Code (required)
- GitHub (required)
- SVN (required)
- JIRA (required)
- Code Analysis Visual Studio (required)
- SonarQube (required)
- MSSQL, T-SQL (5+ years) (required)
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems management or related field or equivalent experience (required)
- Expert level of software development lifecycle, practices and implementations (required)
- Robust benefits package
- Global career opportunities
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.
