Principal Engineer - Full Stack

When you join Verizon

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What you’ll be doing..

We're building an internal API Gateway platform that consolidates network operations, project management, and AI-assisted tooling for a global network engineering organization. You'll design and ship APIs, widgets, and AI agents that run against production data center inventory (Cisco Nexus, Pica8, Arista) and drive real infrastructure decisions — site refreshes, tech refreshes, NAC deployments, and switch migrations across dozens of enterprise sites.

This is a hands-on builder role. You'll write the API, design the schema, build the Vue.js view, wire up the agent, and own the outcome end-to-end.

• API Development & Security:Designing and building REST APIs (Node.js) against Postgres, with versioning, input schemas, caching, and hybrid NP/prod auth models.

• Frontend UI & Dashboards:Building widgets and Vue.js views that surface network inventory and operational metrics (counts dashboards, site status, work-item boards).

• AI Integration & Agent Automation:Configuring and extending AI agents (MCP servers, tool bindings, prompt design) that assist network engineers with day-to-day ops.

• Relational Database Modeling:Modeling relational data for work-item tracking, project management, and CMDB-adjacent inventory.

• End-to-End Delivery Lifecycle:Owning the full lifecycle: schema migration API widget agent tool PR prod deploy.

• Full-Stack Troubleshooting:Debugging across the stack: platform security policies, credential vaults, DB pool exhaustion, agent tool-call failures.

• Operations Collaboration & Alignment:Collaborating with network engineers to translate ops asks ("we need a counts page showing X Nexus, Y Pica8") into shipped features.

What we’re looking for...

You will need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience in JavaScript/Node.js — async patterns, REST handler design and error handling.

• Strong SQL and relational modeling — Postgres preferred; comfortable writing migrations, joins, and parameterized queries.

• Frontend fundamentals — Vue.js (or React), HTML/CSS, browser networking, state management for dashboards.

• API design discipline — input validation, versioning, idempotency, auth, rate limiting.

Even better if you have:

• Network engineering domain knowledge (Cisco Nexus, Pica8, Arista, NAC, VXLAN, data center refresh workflows).

• Git workflow proficiency — branching, PR hygiene, disciplined commits, comfortable with staged/unstaged distinctions.

• Debugging across boundaries — reading platform errors, tracing failures from UI API DB external system.

• Security-aware coding — credential vaults, secrets handling, least privilege, understanding prod vs non-prod boundaries.

• Clear written communication — turning fuzzy asks into scoped work items; documentation others can act on.

• Experience with AI agents / LLM tool-use patterns (MCP, function calling, agent orchestration).

• Project management systems (PMO, epics/stories/tasks) and integrations with them.

• Prior work on internal developer platforms or low-code/API-gateway tooling.

• Experience with ServiceNow, CMDB, or IT asset management systems.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

• You've shipped multiple end-to-end features (schema API UI agent tool) that network engineers use weekly.

• You've reduced manual toil for at least one recurring ops workflow.

• You've extended the platform's agent capabilities so engineers can get answers conversationally instead of navigating dashboards.

• You're trusted to own a domain end-to-end and make architectural calls without hand-holding.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

The salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $120,500.00 - $231,000.00.