Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

Define scalable SaaS architecture and technical direction while remaining hands-on in software development. Design APIs, integrations, security, and modernization roadmaps; establish engineering standards and DevSecOps practices; write production code; lead architecture and code reviews; coordinate development and QA teams; and ensure secure, accessible, compliant platform delivery.

Build and evolve server and agent tool surfaces for LLM clients, ship frontend features and tRPC/React routes, design public API layer with auth and rate limiting, integrate new data sources, and own performance, reliability, security, and observability end-to-end.

Lead development and optimization of high-performance LLM inference pipelines across data center, edge, and embedded platforms. Improve latency and throughput via custom CUDA kernels, quantization, KV-cache and batching strategies, and deploy efficient, production-ready runtimes without external vendor dependency.

Develops, tests, documents, enhances, and maintains software solutions using established design principles and technical standards. Reviews systems, resolves defects, remediates security vulnerabilities, improves performance, analyzes user stories, and implements business solutions. Participates in software development processes, stays current with technology, mentors engineers, and helps plan and prioritize team development work.

Lead Elasticsearch performance engineering from architecture through production. Develop performance models, optimize distributed systems, profile bottlenecks, build benchmarks, detect regressions, and improve scalability across stateful and serverless architectures. Design AI-assisted optimization and benchmarking tools, collaborate across teams, define performance strategies, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep Java, JVM, concurrency, distributed systems, and search or data-store performance expertise.

Leads the technical strategy, architecture, implementation, and delivery of a scalable ecommerce platform for vehicle discovery, configuration, checkout, payments, order management, fulfillment, and ownership experiences. Builds and tests distributed systems, drives code quality and technical decisions, partners with product and UX teams, simplifies complex problems, and mentors engineers while balancing customer impact, business needs, and long-term technology excellence.

Leads the full lifecycle development of satellite and aerospace software systems, including requirements definition, systems architecture, trade studies, verification, validation, testing, anomaly resolution, integration, deployment, and operations. Supports spacecraft product roadmaps, customization, cost optimization, and heritage-platform reuse. The role also leads multidisciplinary teams and performs specialized systems analyses across safety, reliability, security, certification, and related engineering disciplines.

Serve as technical lead between NVIDIA and hyperscale CSPs on GPU firmware and system software. Drive firmware update orchestration, recovery procedures, multi-GPU coordination, telemetry/health monitoring, and incorporate CSP feedback into NVIDIAs roadmap to improve fleet-scale manageability and reliability.

Lead technical engagements with cloud service providers on rack-scale system software and firmware. Drive architecture alignment, integration readiness, error handling and recovery, health telemetry, firmware orchestration, and serviceability. Capture CSP feedback, influence NVIDIA system software design, improve tooling and tests, and mitigate execution risks through early collaboration.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead the design and build-out of an AI Context Layer, ensuring high-quality data for AI systems, while managing access control and developer interfaces, and leading cross-team projects.

Lead the architecture and development of Azure-based IoT cloud solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. Mentor engineers and optimize cloud platform performance while collaborating across teams.

Lead technical architecture and hands-on implementation of IAA's Azure-based data platform. Design and build scalable, production-grade data pipelines, semantic models, and data products for BI, analytics, forecasting, and ML. Define standards, mentor engineers, resolve performance and scalability challenges, and drive platform strategy across Fabric, Synapse, Power BI, and related Azure services.

Design and implement scalable full-stack solutions for institutional platforms. Lead API and microservices design, cloud (AWS) deployments, CI/CD and DevSecOps, collaborate with product and QA, troubleshoot production, and mentor distributed teams.

Design, architect, and build enterprise Java microservices and APIs; lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, implement cloud-native and CI/CD practices, design database schemas and PL/SQL, and develop blockchain/digital-asset solutions including smart contract work and lifecycle integration in financial services.

Lead technical vision and architecture for Dockers Developer Tools: build a self-service internal platform, CI/CD and build systems, integrate AI/LLM agents, set SDLC tenets, establish standards for observability, security, reliability, and productize internal tooling into customer offerings.

Lead development of planet-scale mapping systems from crowdsourced fleet data. Design and implement 3D reconstruction, SfM, pose estimation, sensor fusion, map fusion, change-detection, and production C++ pipelines. Build evaluation, visualization, and debugging tools, and collaborate with perception, localization, and planning teams to integrate high-quality maps into autonomous driving systems.

Lead architecture and evolution of Cardlytics' AWS-based data compute platform and lakehouse. Define standards for batch, streaming, ML, and AI workloads; build semantic layer, feature store, and governance. Partner with analysts and engineers, drive CI/CD (Terraform, GitHub Actions), monitoring, security, cost governance, and incident response while mentoring teams and shaping platform strategy.

Drive architecture and technical vision for Elasticsearch core storage and query engine. Lead performance and storage-efficiency improvements, design indexing/serialization/data layouts, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-organizational initiatives, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java for logs and metrics workloads.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure Forma Data cloud services. Act as technical lead across full software lifecycle, write and operate cloud services, mentor engineers, solve complex distributed-system problems, and collaborate globally to integrate SaaS products with Autodesk tools.

Lead design and delivery of the Structured Record Storage platform: CDC/Kafka integration, schema automation, access APIs, and fleet management. Set architecture standards, improve fleet-wide operations (capacity, monitoring, tuning, replication), drive migrations and schema lifecycle, enforce observability and IaC, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team tradeoffs, and own reliability and incident response.

Lead the development and maintenance of high-performance cross-platform desktop and mobile applications for HiFi audio. Drive technical direction, mentor team members, and innovate audio streaming solutions while ensuring product scalability and performance.

The role involves building and optimizing big data pipelines, designing data architectures, collaborating with data scientists, and driving technical strategy for data processing infrastructure.

Lead architecture and implementation of high-performance software to deploy and operate AI/ML models for network threat detection. Build autonomous AI agent workflows, production ML pipelines, and services; drive cross-team engineering standards, mentor engineers, and represent technical direction to leadership.

Lead technical strategy and architecture across engineering, advise executives, de-risk early-stage ideas, and drive delivery of scalable web and mobile products. Mentor senior engineers, promote cross-team collaboration and AI adoption, partner with product and clinical stakeholders, participate in on-call rotation, and ensure systems meet standards for stability, maintainability, and scalability.

Lead design and hands-on development of scalable healthcare analytics, ML/AI, and data platform solutions. Architect SaaS cloud services, mentor engineers, align technical strategy with business needs, manage risk, and drive architectural innovation and stakeholder engagement.