# Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Engineering Platform

With millions of diners, 70,000+ restaurant partners and 25+ years of experience, OpenTable, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), is an industry leader with a passion for helping restaurants thrive. Our world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most - their team, their guests, and their bottom line - while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion. Every employee at OpenTable has a tangible impact on what we do and how we do it. You’ll also be part of a global team and its portfolio of metasearch brands. Hospitality is all about taking care of others, and it defines our culture. About the job As a Principal Engineer, you'll be a founding member of OpenTable's Agentic Engineering Platform team within Product Engineering, rethinking how software gets built. Our goal is to redesign the full product delivery workflow so people and AI agents can work together in shared team spaces, automate more of the work, and reduce the total cost of delivery. Today, fragmented context, inconsistent standards, and legacy infrastructure limit what agents can complete on their own. You'll build shared cloud agents and tools that

- **Id**: 3694904
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/opentable-principal-software-engineer-agentic-engineering-platform>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T17:36:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T10:50:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7013
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Food & Beverages, Catering & Food Services, Scheduling & Booking Software

## Company

- **Id**: 450225
- **Name**: OpenTable
- **Domain**: opentable.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/opentable-5>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.4
- **Repost share**: 0.067
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **Slack** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T17:43:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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