Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

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.

Leads architecture and delivery across device, mobile app, and cloud systems. Sets technical direction, drives cross-team initiatives, writes production code, guides migrations, resolves complex issues, and improves reliability, observability, security, cost, and developer workflows. Mentors senior and Staff engineers, establishes scalable technical decision practices, and partners with data science, AI, and platform teams on production integrations.

Leads the strategic direction of backend and full-stack engineering, architects scalable distributed systems and microservices, and drives modernization, reliability, security, and performance initiatives. Designs APIs, data architectures, pipelines, infrastructure, and observability practices; delivers customer-facing service improvements; establishes engineering standards; and mentors engineers. Collaborates across product and technical teams to make architecture and business trade-offs and lead large-scale initiatives from vision through production.

Lead backend architecture and deliver reusable solutions, unblock engineering teams across the development lifecycle, drive complex design and bug fixes, set code review standards, mentor engineers, collaborate on company-wide projects, and make technical decisions balancing correctness, performance, and customer impact.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.

Design and implement high-performance backend systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle (debugging, testing, optimization), integrate third-party devices and data, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and lead architectural and technical strategy across teams.

As a Principal Software Dev Engineer, lead full-stack engineering, oversee complex initiatives, mentor engineers, and align technical strategies with business goals to enhance content management systems.

Leads reliability engineering strategy across store systems, payments, and commerce platforms. Architects resilient infrastructure, reusable code, and self-healing systems; drives chaos engineering, outage response, cloud cost optimization, technology adoption, and portfolio roadmaps. Supports 4–6 engineering teams, mentors engineers and direct reports, resolves complex technical issues, collaborates with vendors, and promotes engineering best practices and innovation.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for Pantheon’s P1 zero-to-one product and company-wide engineering strategy. Owns architecture across real-time collaboration, APIs, data, publishing, integrations, and developer experience; establishes reliability, security, observability, and delivery standards; guides build-versus-buy decisions; mentors senior engineers; partners with product, design, security, infrastructure, and customers; and contributes code to validate architecture and unblock critical initiatives.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for Salesforce technical direction, enterprise architecture, API and integration strategy, engineering standards, security, reliability, governance, modernization, and AI-native engineering practices. The role leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, influences technology decisions, and develops scalable solutions across Salesforce platforms while balancing regulatory, cost, performance, and business requirements.

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.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for the Intelligent Document Management System platform. Defines architecture and engineering standards across web, mobile, backend, desktop, Microsoft 365, and AI capabilities. Designs cloud-native applications, microservices, integrations, and enterprise-scale experiences; leads modernization and cross-team initiatives; establishes security, reliability, and performance practices; mentors senior engineers; and drives architectural alignment without formal authority.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for client-facing web and mobile platforms. Drive adoption of large-scale Web & API architectures, developer platforms, CI/CD, and AI-enabled automation. Mentor engineers, influence product direction, and represent engineering at executive levels while ensuring scalable, reliable, high-quality digital experiences.

Lead the technical direction and implementation of large-scale SaaS product features. Build secure, reliable, maintainable, well-tested software; evaluate architectural trade-offs; debug team inefficiencies; and contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes. Collaborate across product, design, and engineering, influence strategy, identify organizational blockers, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices around testing, performance, security, privacy, and reliability.

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Design and build software-defined networking infrastructure using EVPN and BGP architectures. Develop networking software, conduct code reviews, collaborate on underlay network architecture, implement multi-tenant networking solutions, establish networking strategies, and lead complex projects while ensuring high standards for reliability and correctness.

Own cross-team, platform-level engineering initiatives end-to-end: architecture, migrations, observability, on-call, and customer outcomes. Drive AI-native tooling and agentic AI adoption, mentor senior engineers, and set technical standards across teams.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

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.

Design, implement, and ensure quality of systems stack, tools, and SDK integration for AI frameworks. Collaborate with hardware and ML teams, apply engineering principles, write low-level/high-performance code, define architecture, estimate scope, and drive coding standards.

Architect and develop foundational edge-computing runtime and integration platforms for connected-home devices. Build software models for device, spatial, and occupancy data; prototype and productionize new concepts; evaluate architectures; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding standards, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role spans edge computing, IoT, distributed systems, embedded environments, intelligent agents, networking, and secure systems within an exploratory R&D organization.

Lead the architecture and modernization of a complex enterprise SaaS platform while remaining hands-on with critical software design and development. Define technical direction, improve scalability, reliability, security, performance, and maintainability, and guide design and code reviews. Partner across engineering and product teams, resolve complex technical challenges, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and translate architectural strategy into practical delivery.

Lead the technical vision, roadmap, and development of Elasticsearch’s ES|QL analytical engine and query capabilities. Design data-intensive systems, algorithms, APIs, and compute infrastructure; research search and analytics technologies; collaborate across product and engineering teams; mentor senior engineers; and contribute hands-on modern Java development. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, expertise in database internals and analytics systems, and the ability to guide complex projects from conception through delivery.

Leads architecture and operation of NVIDIA’s global compute platform across bare metal, virtualized, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing Kubernetes, OpenShift, KubeVirt, large-scale GPU infrastructure, automated remediation, telemetry, capacity planning, infrastructure-as-code, self-service platforms, GitOps, and legacy workload migrations. The role requires influencing autonomous engineering teams, handling hardware failures and large-scale infrastructure constraints, and establishing operational maturity for frontier AI inference systems.

Set technical direction for Elastic Cloud Serverless control-plane initiatives, designing distributed systems that orchestrate projects across AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Lead multi-quarter, cross-team delivery; write and review Go code; improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency; investigate incidents; participate in on-call; mentor engineers; and advise product and engineering leaders on technical trade-offs and roadmap decisions.