Principal Engineer, Agentic Engineering

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Equifax is seeking a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the charge in revolutionizing our product embarking on a transformation journey. You will be the single-threaded owner responsible for transforming our software development lifecycle (SDLC) by orchestrating and extending the capabilities of Git Hub Copilot. The ultimate goal is to create a highly leveraged engineering organization where Copilot acts as a true autonomous agent, handling complex tasks from code generation and testing to incident response and documentation, all while operating within a well-defined, observable, and secure framework you own.

This role requires being in the office 3 days/week on Tue–Thu. This position does not offer immigration sponsorship (current or future) including F-1 STEM OPT extension support.

• Define the strategic roadmap for the platform with Git Hub Copilot, treating it as a first-class internal product. Architect the complete system for Copilot's invocation, context retrieval, and action execution using custom tools.
• Design and manage the Model Context Protocol (MCP) toolset, enabling Copilot's interaction with third-party services like Service Now, Atlassian, Data Dog, and GCP for context and action.
• Engineer the strategy for providing scalable context to Git Hub Copilot, shaping its persona and behavior by translating internal engineering standards into a centralized, version-controlled repository of custom instructions and integrating vendor-provided connectors for various contexts.
• Design, test, and refine complex prompts and contextual data frameworks to ensure our coding agents perform with maximum accuracy, efficiency, and reliability.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for the agentic system's effectiveness and implement a robust observability stack to track Copilot's interactions for continuous optimization.
• Establish the platform's security posture by implementing safeguards for custom tools and APIs exposed to Copilot, and design a "human-in-the-loop" framework for critical actions.
• Define and enforce granular, code-driven permissions (RBAC) for the custom Git Hub Actions and APIs that Copilot can invoke, ensuring the principle of least privilege.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of cloud native, distributed micro service based architectures.
• Deliver solutions for complex business problems through software standard SDLC.
• Build strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders including product, business and sales partners.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills with the ability to both simplify complex problems and also dive deeper if needed.
• Build and manage strong technical teams that deliver complex software solutions that scale.
• Provide deep troubleshooting skills with the ability to lead and solve production and customer issues under pressure.
• Leverage strong experience in full stack software development and public cloud like GCP and AWS.
• Mentor, coach and develop junior and other engineers.
• Lead with a data/metrics driven mindset with extreme focus towards optimizing and creating efficient solutions.
• Ensure compliance with EFX secure software development guidelines and best practices and responsible for meeting and maintaining QE, Dev Sec, and Fin Ops KPIs.
• Define, maintain and report SLA, SLO, SLIs meeting EFX engineering standards in partnership with the product, engineering and architecture teams.
• Collaborate with architects, SRE leads and other technical leadership on strategic technical direction, guidelines, and best practices.
• Drive up-to-date technical documentation including support, end user documentation and run books.
• Responsible for implementation architecture decision making associated with Product features/stories, refactoring work, and EOSL decisions.
• Create and deliver technical presentations to internal and external technical and non-technical stakeholders communicating with clarity and precision, and present complex information in a concise format that is audience appropriate.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent…