Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

Lead and mentor an engineering team building GovIntel and GovChannel product capabilities. Own technical direction, design and deliver scalable SaaS features, APIs, integrations, and platform reliability. Partner with Product, QA, Cloud Ops, and stakeholders to prioritize work, drive CI/CD and observability practices, lead reviews and incident response, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve development speed and quality.

Lead architecture and build AI-native, agentic-first features for ITSM/ITOM products. Design scalable distributed systems, prototype solutions, validate via experiments, establish architecture patterns, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team adoption to realize customer value in automation, observability, and data-driven workflows.

The Principal Software Engineer will design and optimize backend applications/services, improve payment integration, and oversee code quality within AWS.

Lead long-term technical strategy and execution across multiple teams, architecting and evolving foundational frontend/backend systems and platforms at massive scale. Drive AI/ML adoption, solve ambiguous, high-impact problems, remain hands-on in critical system design and implementation, and align senior leaders on roadmaps and engineering standards.

Design and build next-generation ads formats, backend infrastructure, and scalable distributed systems. Lead technical direction, collaborate across teams to define product requirements, experiment, analyze and optimize ad performance, and ensure availability, scalability, operational excellence, and cost management. Mentor engineers and apply AI tools and high-velocity workflows to deliver production-ready systems.

The Principal Full Stack Software Engineer will design, develop, and mentor teams in building scalable web applications, influencing architecture and engineering standards in AI and cloud technologies.

Lead frontend architecture and implementation for a high-performance SPA and Node.js BFF. Solve algorithmic, concurrency, and memory challenges, optimize performance and builds, drive observability, security, and CI/CD, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, UX, and SRE teams to deliver resilient, distributed real-time collaborative features.

The Principal Software Engineer drives consumer identity architecture, establishes standards, influences cross-team collaboration, and ensures effective identity solutions for healthcare technology.

Lead technical architect and hands-on principal engineer for the SOC Experience team, building scalable investigation workflows, agentic LLM features, automation, remediation actions, and analyst tooling. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, prototype solutions, ensure reliability and observability, and partner with product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational problems into auditable, production-grade systems.

The role involves leading security architecture and development for AI Platform, focusing on cryptography, key management, and machine identity. Collaboration across teams is essential to deliver secure solutions.

Lead the rearchitecture and implementation of Arcadia's User Management system, focusing on authentication and authorization frameworks. Drive new systems and mentor engineers to ensure secure data access and operational excellence.

The Principal Software Engineer will define and build the Workflow Automation Engine, integrating AI with workflow processes, overseeing design and performance optimization, and leading engineering initiatives within the team.

Lead design, development, and delivery of mission-critical SIEM platform features. Define technical vision, own quality and uptime, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, build AI-assisted workflows, and drive performance, monitoring, and architecture decisions.

The Principal Software Engineer will architect shared application libraries, improve CI/CD pipelines, mentor engineers, and drive technical direction across mobile and OTT platforms for NBC News.

Design and implement scalable customer engagement solutions using AWS services, particularly Amazon Connect and AI technologies. Collaborate with stakeholders and ensure security compliance while optimizing system performance.

Design and develop AI-driven applications and conversational solutions using Generative AI and AWS services. Focus on scalability and performance while collaborating with stakeholders for requirements.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Lead design and prototype of generative AI experiences to accelerate autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind Generative AI; collaborate with CTO and Hivemind product leads; conduct user research and competitive analysis; build prototypes and reference implementations that integrate with web and mission-planning systems.

Lead software engineering efforts in developing healthcare software, focusing on microservices, code enhancement, and team collaboration while mentoring others.

Lead technical direction for a high-performance 2D/3D viewer platform. Drive cross-team architecture, implement scalable platform capabilities, mentor engineers, improve engineering velocity, and resolve complex production issues while partnering with Product, UX, and Architects.

Design and maintain backend systems, influence technical direction, ensure scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices.

Design and operate backend systems, influence technical direction, improve practices, and mentor engineers while ensuring software scalability and reliability.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll develop software systems for NVIDIA's rack-scale infrastructure, defining software architecture, collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high-quality technical decisions in complex environments.

Lead the evolution of Backcountry's ecommerce platform, guiding architecture, mentoring teams, and driving modernization and scalability initiatives.

Lead technical direction for major full‑stack product areas, architect scalable systems across frontend, backend, and data, build AI-powered features (LLMs/embeddings), drive large cross-team initiatives, establish engineering standards (reliability, testing, observability), remove systemic risks, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and design to deliver customer-focused outcomes.