# Principal Full Stack Developer & Solutions Architect – AI, Data & Cloud at Western Digital

- Company: Western Digital
- What the company does: WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy. As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.westerndigital.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-13
- Apply: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternDigital/744000152498089?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/western-digital-principal-full-stack-developer-and-solutions-architect-ai-data-a/

## About the role

Western Digital is seeking a Principal Full Stack Developer and Solutions Architect to design and build the AI, data analytics, and cloud solutions used by our Product Development engineering organization. This is a hands-on principal role: you will own the solution architecture, write the code, and design the interfaces engineers actually work in. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Build applications end-to-end: backend services, orchestration logic, APIs, data access, and the user-facing surface
- Own the user experience — how work is initiated, how progress is made visible, and how output is reviewed and corrected by the engineer
- Decide embedded-versus-standalone delivery across Slack, Teams, IDE, BI, and web surfaces, and ship working pilot interfaces without waiting on a front-end team
- Define the interaction patterns that ITES-US Engineering & Web Apps productionizes for scaled deployment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field, advanced degree a plus
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production ownership of systems you designed


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/western-digital-principal-full-stack-developer-and-solutions-architect-ai-data-a/