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Our optimization and analytics platforms integrate open-source technologies to leverage massive, diverse sets of utility operating data. This enables rapid development of operational solutions. Applying expertise in advanced mathematics, data and physical sciences, we solve some of the hardest problems facing the energy industry.\nPosition Specific Description\nWe are seeking a high-caliberPrincipal Software Development Engineer to join a team building customer-centric solutions for the business. This role is designed for a top-tier engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition, business acumen, and an ownership mindset. You thrive in ambiguity, partnering directly with business leaders to understand problems before designing solutions. You rapidly translate ideas into working software, validate assumptions through iteration, and evolve prototypes into scalable production systems. You act as the technical bridge between business strategy and engineering execution, ensuring technology investments deliver measurable customer and business value.\nKey Responsibilities & Expectations\n1. Execution & Business Ownership\nDrive Outcomes: Take ownership of delivering meaningful business results, managing scope responsibly, and communicating technical risks early.\nTechnical Translation: Partner closely with business leaders. Articulate complex architectural decisions and tradeoffs in clear, outcome oriented terms.\nCross Functional Partnership: Engage security, risk, compliance, and platform teams early, communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, and advocate for alternative approaches when a project requires them.\nStrategic Technology Advisor: Build trusted relationships with business leaders by translating technical possibilities into business capabilities and clearly communicating tradeoffs, risks, and investment decisions.\n2. 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Engineering Productivity with AI\n AI Assisted Development: Use agentic AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to accelerate delivery while maintaining full accountability for code quality, correctness, and security.\nFeedback Loops for Coding Agents: Design quality gates, specification driven workflows, and deterministic checks that identify agent errors before they reach human review.\nEvaluate Emerging Technology: Continuously assess AI capabilities and engineering practices, adopting approaches that measurably improve delivery speed, software quality, and developer experience.\n4. Reliability & DevSecOps\nSecurity First Mindset: Embed security and compliance into every stage of the development lifecycle, proactively mitigating vulnerabilities through secure design.\nProduction Standards: Build well tested, maintainable software. Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure systems are resilient, scalable, and optimized for an exceptional end user experience.\nOperational Readiness: Make production systems measurable, debuggable, and recoverable by building observability, alerting, runbooks, and recovery mechanisms from the outset.\n5. 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Employees in this role work with the product team to plan work and typically serve as Technical Lead of projects. Individuals in this position provide technical advice to higher levels in the organization.\nJob Duties & Responsibilities\nCodes in multiple languages in support of software products and the development of software products\nLeads software system architecture projects\nMentors others in efficient software design\nLeads project-level sized teams including assigning work, answering technical project questions, helping other software engineers overcome challenges and mentoring less experienced software engineers\nCommunicates with varying levels within and outside the organization including clearly reporting status in meetings and in other forums, describing systems to audiences of all technical abilities, communicating task assignments to team members, refining requirements and helping to facilitate project planning with the product team, assisting with software project demos and reporting results\nProvides input on software and technology decisions across an entire project and potentially participates in higher level meetings concerning software and IT architecture\nPerforms other job-related duties as assigned\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience\nExperience: 9+ years\nPreferred Qualifications\nBachelor’s - Engineering\nThe estimated base pay for this position is $149,600.00 to $224,400.00 per year. Starting pay will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, experience, qualifications, job-related and industry knowledge and skills and education/training.\nNextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.\nEmployee Group: Exempt\nEmployee Type: Full Time\nJob Category: Science, Research, and Technology\nOrganization: NextEra Analytics, Inc\nRelocation Provided: Yes, if applicable\nNextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.\nNextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to , providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you.\nNextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.\nNextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. 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