Principal Engineer

Are you looking to play a key role in a global gaming company? Are you passionate about producing high quality, robust and maintainable products? Do you thrive in an Agile environment? Are you interested in working on the newest and greatest technology within the gaming industry? Aristocrat is seeking a Principal Engineer to master and elevate the technical craft of our next‑generation gaming platform. As a Principal Engineer, you will lead technical implementation across teams, design and architect significant initiatives, and provide architectural oversight in partnership with our Architecture team. You will influence technical direction, promote engineering excellence, and ensure alignment between product needs and high‑quality technical execution. This is a hands‑on role requiring both deep technical mastery and strong cross‑team influence. What You’ll Do Lead the design and implementation of complex, high‑performance, highly reliable platform features. Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, ensuring alignment to architectural standards and established guidelines. Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and raising quality standards across the organization. Work across a broad range of technologies including graphics systems, networking and protocols, encryption and security, hardware integration, drivers, tools, and SDK standards. Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tools, practices, and process improvements to improve scalability, reliability, and developer productivity and efficiency. Identify and mitigate technical risk across initiatives. Analyze and debug issues. Champion utilization of AI tools (e.g., code assistants, code search, test generators, doc summarizers, static analyzers with AI) to accelerate building, coding, testing, and fixing issues. Establish guidelines/guardrails for AI‑assisted code contributions (prompt patterns, review standards, security/compliance). Use AI to mine logs, triage incidents, and propose fixes; generate/maintain architecture docs and ADRs. Evaluate and integrate AI‑enabled tooling into the SDLC. What We’re Looking For Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience). Technical expert in C# and the .NET ecosystem. 10+ years of commercial software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and delivering large‑scale libraries, frameworks, platforms, and/or multi‑threaded applications. Demonstrated ability to design and architect new initiatives independently. Deep expertise in multi‑threading, eventing, inter‑process communication, concurrency, performance tuning, and memory management. Demonstrated proficiency in object‑oriented building, architectural patterns, and principles passionate about business logic and structure. Proven experience leading technical implementation across teams. Strong understanding of secure system design, networking, encryption, and hardware/software integration. Experience leading cross‑team technical initiatives and influencing engineering standards across an organization. Exceptional analytical, debugging, and root‑cause analysis skills. Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and elevate interpersonal technical capability. Demonstrated ability to investigate and evaluate new technologies based on both technical and business needs. Track record of promoting a culture of quality, accountability, and technical integrity. Strong communication and presence — able to influence without formal authority. Experience with continuous integration and automated testing practices. Demonstrated ability to bring to bear AI‑assisted development tools to improve efficiency and quality. Promotes responsible and effective adoption of AI technologies within engineering workflows. Casino gaming or related proven experience. Windows or Linux embedded OS experience; cross‑platform (Windows/Linux) development. Why Aristocrat? Aristocrat is a world leader in gaming content and technology, and a top‑tier publisher of free‑to‑play mobile games. We deliver great performance for our B2B customers and bring joy to the lives of the millions of people who love to play our casino and mobile games. And while we focus on fun, we never forget our responsibilities. We strive to lead the way in responsible gameplay, and to lift the bar in company governance, employee wellbeing and sustainability. We’re a diverse business united by shared values and an inspiring mission to bring joy to life through the power of play. We aim to create an environment where individual differences are valued, and all employees have the opportunity to realize their potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all people regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, cultural background, disability status or LGBTQ+ identity. EEO M/F/D/V World Leader in Gaming Entertainment Robust benefits package Global career opportunities Our Values All about the Player Talent Unleashed Collective Brilliance Good Business Good Citizen Travel Expectations None Pay Range $153,209 - $284,532 per year Our goal is to pay a market competitive salary focusing near the median of our pay ranges. However, final offers for all positions will be based on several factors such as experience level, education, skills, work location or internal pay equity. This position offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan with employer matching, more details available at Additional Information At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship. #J-18808-Ljbffr