Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

Design, develop, and maintain a native IBM i connectivity agent for Redwood RunMyJobs. Responsibilities include job submission and monitoring, spool and queue handling, CL/RPG invocation, security integration, API connectivity, troubleshooting, performance and reliability improvements, architecture, code reviews, testing, documentation, and collaboration with product and engineering teams. The role also requires validating AI-assisted solutions against authoritative IBM i documentation.

Build and maintain a Java-based connectivity agent integrating Redwood RunMyJobs with IBM z/OS. Responsibilities include JES, TSO, SMF, USS, security, cryptography, custom protocols, C/JNI integration, concurrency, troubleshooting, performance, architecture, testing, documentation, and collaboration. The role requires deep mainframe systems expertise, strong Java and C skills, DevOps experience, and sound judgment when using AI-assisted engineering tools.

Leads the architecture, design, and implementation of Vertica’s core database engine. Drives innovations across query optimization, distributed execution, storage, concurrency, scalability, and performance using C++. Defines long-term technical strategy, architects complex distributed database features, guides testing, collaborates with customers and cross-functional teams, mentors engineers, and influences product roadmaps. Requires deep database internals expertise, large-scale systems experience, and strong technical leadership.

Lead architecture and engineering for Microsoft’s enterprise Insider Risk platform. Build scalable, secure, privacy-conscious systems supporting risk modeling, behavioral analytics, detections, monitoring, investigations, workflows, and case orchestration. Partner with security, legal, HR, privacy, data science, and business teams to address complex risk scenarios. Drive technical strategy, align cross-team delivery, mentor engineers, and uphold reliability, confidentiality, compliance, and responsible data-use standards.

Design, develop, and deploy AI-native software products that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable intelligence. Build multi-agent workflows using orchestration frameworks and large language models, engineer tool-using and self-refining agents, develop data ingestion pipelines, and operate secure, scalable AI systems in production. Apply DevOps, reinforcement feedback mechanisms, and AI-assisted development practices while contributing to engineering standards and documentation.

Lead development and operation of a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Shape the engineering roadmap, deliver enterprise platform capabilities, establish best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Agile teams. Build highly available and fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, while applying expertise in Go, Python or Bash, networking, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Own the core software architecture for a laser-driven fusion power plant. Design and implement C++ and Python software integrating controls, hardware interfaces, calibration systems, data infrastructure, storage, and operator HMIs. Establish standards for testing, observability, reliability, security, fault tolerance, documentation, and releases. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, resolve architectural trade-offs, and collaborate across software, hardware, science, and operations teams.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, cloud-native platform capabilities and ML-integrated applications. Oversee full SDLC, architecture, reliability, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement to support high-availability distributed fulfillment systems.

Lead the design and delivery of production AI systems, agentic workflows, and shared AI platform capabilities for loan origination and servicing. Responsibilities include model selection and routing, MCP and agent interfaces, RAG and context engineering, evaluation and observability, reliability practices, and scalable backend architecture. The role operates independently on complex initiatives, establishes technical patterns, makes platform decisions, and mentors engineers.

Develop and maintain full-stack applications for an agentic AI platform, including responsive front ends, RESTful backend services, AI agent integrations, AWS cloud infrastructure, and Infrastructure as Code. Collaborate with AI/ML engineers and product owners, optimize and test platform components, document architectures and APIs, and mentor junior developers. The role is remote within the United States and requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Secret clearance.

Owns end-to-end production software, architectural decisions, and improvements to the engineering lifecycle. The principal engineer will expand AI-assisted development, make speed safe across reservations, payments, mobile, and international systems, and influence a growing team’s engineering practices. Success means enabling a fourteen-person team to ship with the effectiveness of a much larger organization.

Lead design and implementation of secure, scalable policy and platform software across cloud and hybrid environments. Drive technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, influence architecture and standards, and collaborate across product and business teams to deliver long-term, reliable security solutions.

Lead design, development, and delivery of automotive infotainment HMI software. Define architecture, coordinate cross-functional and supplier teams, mentor engineers, enforce quality and safety, drive Agile program delivery, and manage resources, budgets, and stakeholder relationships to release scalable, reliable infotainment products on time.

Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable cloud compute functionality across ARM64 and x86 platforms. Design hypervisor layers, cross-platform build pipelines, and performance optimization solutions while writing, reviewing, documenting, and testing production software. Coordinate globally to deliver compute features and resolve low-level software issues. Provide technical, organizational, and functional leadership to engineers.

Lead architecture and technical direction for CMS Medicare Secondary Payer applications. Design and develop scalable Java enterprise applications, Spring Boot microservices, RESTful APIs, and secure full-stack solutions. Conduct design and code reviews, modernize legacy systems, resolve complex production issues, mentor developers, and promote secure coding, testing, and AI-assisted development practices.

Owns VM and fleet test strategy, performance quality gates, and hypervisor validation for an IaaS platform. Designs reproducible bare-metal-like test environments, develops automated performance benchmarks and regression gates, validates SLOs and deployment safety, and builds test harnesses and analysis pipelines in Go, Python, and Perl. The role requires deep expertise in virtualization, Linux systems, performance engineering, statistical analysis, and cross-architecture debugging.

Principal Engineer responsible for owning complex software initiatives from problem framing through architecture, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. The role involves building web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers, data pipelines, and platform integrations; leading architecture and code reviews; improving security, reliability, and maintainability; mentoring engineers; and shaping technical strategy. The engineer will also use and improve AI-assisted development practices while maintaining human accountability for quality and operational outcomes.

Lead design, build, deployment, and operation of highly resilient, high-throughput configuration and publishing systems. Define long-term architecture and strategy, mentor senior engineers, diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.

Design and scale critical, highly-available services; set technical direction across teams; apply best practices for availability, scalability, cost, and operational excellence; leverage AI tools and high-velocity workflows; mentor engineers and solve ambiguous, company-wide technical problems.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Fanatics Betting and Gaming’s scalable, fault-tolerant platform. Design cross-cutting systems, guide complex initiatives across teams, establish engineering standards, resolve systemic technical risks, and improve reliability, security, performance, and operational readiness. Partner with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Security leaders while mentoring senior engineers and influencing executive-level technical decisions.

Principal frontend-focused software engineer responsible for leading frontend architecture, standards, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and deployment practices. The role delivers scalable customer-facing web applications, component libraries, and design systems using React or Angular. It includes cross-functional product collaboration, technical decision-making, mentoring, modernization initiatives, and occasional full-stack work. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 0–10% business travel.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Own end-to-end development of storage management and automation tools: design and implement Python CLI and libraries, extend Ansible Collection modules, maintain containerized services, manage multi-distribution packaging and GitLab CI/CD, investigate field exceptions, and validate/promote releases across heterogeneous host and hypervisor environments.

Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Pika’s web and multiplatform creative products. Design scalable user-facing systems, real-time collaboration, messaging, generative AI workflows, and cross-service observability. Partner with product and design leaders from ideation through launch, while driving architecture reviews, technical excellence, mentorship, and engineering strategy.