Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

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.

As a Senior/Lead Software Engineer, you'll develop full-stack product features, focusing on AI integration and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead architecture and core runtime foundations for a distributed scanner platform, driving reliability, observability, performance, and engineering rigor while collaborating with hardware and ML teams and mentoring engineers.

Lead company-level technical direction for an AI-native insurance platform. Own architecture across AI, data, infrastructure, and product; resolve high-impact technical decisions; establish org-wide engineering standards; and mentor senior engineers while partnering with founders to shape long-term technical vision.

Lead architecture and implementation to scale a large Kubernetes-native microservice platform into cell-based deployments. Decompose services, build shared libraries and configuration frameworks, enable private/isolated cloud deployments, land changes in product services, set architecture patterns, partner with Cloud Platform/SRE/DevEx, mentor senior engineers, and embed AI tooling into development workflows.

Lead end-to-end design, architecture, and shipping of full-stack systems and agentic AI layers. Build production agents and internal tools, make early architectural decisions, iterate quickly, and own product-quality outcomes in a fast, ambiguous 0→1 environment.

Lead architecture and development of secure, scalable systems; set technical standards; mentor engineers; contribute to code for complex areas; align engineering with product and regulatory needs; evaluate new technologies and support hiring and culture.

Lead technical vision as a principal engineer, either managing teams or driving cross-team initiatives. Design and architect cloud infrastructure, networking, and security; define authentication/authorization patterns; architect and operate Kubernetes deployments; and implement infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or Puppet.

Lead technical vision and initiatives as a principal engineer: manage teams or drive cross-team technical projects, mentor engineers, research and evangelize new frameworks, and build full-stack applications using React/Next.js/Prisma, backend languages (Node, Python, Ruby), and relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL). Collaborate with Product Managers to define large project specifications.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions. Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot issues and enhance the software delivery lifecycle. Focus on backend services, using Java and various tools for performance optimization.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded firmware for optical networking products. Implement new features, resolve legacy bugs, collaborate with hardware, validation, and test teams, and ensure accurate firmware documentation. Coach junior engineers, lead code reviews, support pre/post sales and field engineers, and apply Agile/CI/CD/DevOps practices for product delivery.

Hands-on principal software engineer who ships production-quality code, owns architecture and technical roadmap, mentors senior engineers, leads cross-org initiatives, drives incident response and operational discipline, and advances enterprise AI adoption and infrastructure.

Lead architecture and development of production-grade Kubernetes platform capabilities: cluster management, control plane services, fleet lifecycle, provisioning, upgrades, remediation, and automation. Drive technical strategy, cross-team execution, operational reliability, and mentor senior engineers to improve scalability and operability for large-scale AI deployments.

Lead high-impact, cross-product engineering initiatives as the top individual contributor. Define success, simplify complex systems, shape technical strategy, coach senior engineers, and drive measurable outcomes. Stay hands-on with code and production systems while enabling teams and using AI tools to accelerate delivery.

Design, build, and operate large-scale, highly available distributed file storage services on Oracle Cloud. Lead architecture and development, troubleshoot and optimize performance, collaborate with product management, and establish operational best practices.

The Principal Software Engineer - Backend drives technology direction for backend systems, ensures service reliability, and mentors teams while shaping architecture and standards across Autodesk's systems.

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 develop scalable features for secure software. Advocate for quality standards and engage with customers. Work remotely with a focus on product improvement.

The Staff/Principal Software Engineer will work in a remote global team, addressing software engineering challenges while fostering collaboration and clear communication.

As a Principal Software Engineer at Fetch, you'll design scalable systems for user engagement, drive experimentation, lead technical strategy, and mentor teams to improve engineering productivity and system reliability.

The Sr./Principal Software Engineer will design and implement core capabilities for SingleStore's cloud platform, focusing on scalability and reliability, while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.