Summary:
As a Principal Engineer – Cloud Focus, you will play a critical role in defining and building ADT’s future cloud platform, with a strong emphasis on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll act as a hands-on technical leader, shaping cloud architecture, enabling scalability and reliability, and supporting the integration of AI-enabled capabilities across our growing product ecosystem. This role blends deep cloud expertise, platform-level thinking, and practical, hands-on delivery. You will influence strategy while staying close to the code, working across teams to ensure ADT’s cloud foundations are modern, secure, resilient, and ready to support AI-driven products at scale.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of ADT’s future cloud environment with a primary focus on GCP
- Design and build highly scalable and secure platforms to support mission-critical products and services
- Serve as a hands-on technical leader, contributing production-quality code while guiding architectural decisions
- Partner with AI and product engineering teams to enable and integrate AI-powered capabilities into cloud-based systems
- Define and promote cloud standards, best practices, and reference architectures across teams
- Drive adoption of modern cloud patterns including containerization, managed services, event-driven architectures, and infrastructure as code
- Collaborate with IT, SRE, and Security teams to ensure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and compliance
- Influence technical direction across multiple teams through design reviews, technical proposals, and mentorship
- Identify and reduce technical debt while improving platform agility and long-term maintainability
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to product, engineering leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders
Qualifications:
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience in cloud-first architectures
- Bachelor degree in a related field
- Strong hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems
- Experience with containerized platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong background in backend or platform engineering (e.g., Java, Node, or similar modern stacks)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience with cloud and on-prem network connections
- Solid understanding of system reliability, security, observability, and cost management
- Ability to translate business and product needs into robust technical solutions
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and mentor senior engineers
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces while providing clarity and direction
Experience Enabling AI (Strong Plus)
- Hands-on experience supporting or enabling AI/ML workloads in cloud environments
- Familiarity with AI-adjacent cloud patterns such as:
- Scalable data pipelines
- Model hosting and inference infrastructure
- Integration of AI services into distributed systems
- Experience collaborating closely with AI/ML engineers to bring AI-enabled features into production
- Enthusiasm for applying AI to improve both product capabilities and engineering workflows
Skills That Set You Apart:
- Deep expertise in GCP managed services (compute, networking, data, AI/ML, or platform services)
- Experience building platform capabilities used by multiple product teams
- Exposure to security, compliance, or regulated environments
- Strong architectural judgment paired with a bias toward practical delivery
- Passion for mentoring and raising the technical bar across teams
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
Travel:
- 25% as needed
Philadelphia Applicants: Background checks will be conducted during the employment process. Any information will be reviewed through an individualized assessment in accordance with the Philadelphia Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance.
ADT Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ADT and has not been reviewed or approved by ADT.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with a per‑paycheck company match and the possibility of an additional year‑end contribution is positioned as competitive. Feedback suggests this is a reliable anchor of total compensation value.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, adoption/infertility support, and childcare discounts are highlighted as part of the package. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful non‑cash value across different employee groups.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Core medical/dental/vision coverage is paired with an EAP, wellbeing programs, and employee discounts, with noted emphasis on mental‑health initiatives. Eligibility beginning the first of the month after 31 days in many roles reinforces accessibility and day‑to‑day usefulness.
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