Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs

Serve as NVIDIA's CSP-facing principal for end-to-end performance: drive characterization with hyperscaler engineering teams, gather and synthesize workload feedback, prioritize optimizations across CUDA/NCCL/driver/firmware, validate benchmarks and tools, update stress/profiling tooling, define test strategies, and ensure performance integration and acceptance for customer-representative configurations.

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 role involves leading initiatives for vector search in Elasticsearch, enhancing features, resolving bugs, and contributing to community engagements in a distributed team setting. A strong background in vector similarity and Java is crucial.

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.

Design, implement, and test embedded software for DSP boards including BSPs, device drivers, firmware (BIOS/U-Boot). Analyze requirements, develop test software/procedures, create documentation, participate in architecture/design/code reviews, coordinate and validate software releases, and evaluate new technologies.

Lead end-to-end delivery of full-stack product and platform initiatives. Design and implement scalable frontend and backend systems, own production reliability and incidents, introduce pragmatic engineering practices, mentor engineers, and drive architecture and tooling decisions to balance speed and long-term maintainability.

Lead design and implementation of AI agent systems and document intelligence for cloud audit products. Build production-grade AI services, enable cross-portfolio AI capabilities, drive 0→1 product development, and collaborate closely with product, UX, and research teams to iterate and deliver scalable, secure AI-driven workflows.

The Staff+ Software Engineer will shape the technical direction, mentor junior engineers, and lead complex software system development while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Design, architect, and implement cloud-first full-stack software using Java/C# and JavaScript frameworks. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, improve architecture and performance, promote CI and automated testing, and support customer implementation and cloud platform operations.

Provide presales technical support for AMER sales: deliver product demos, customized presentations, proofs of concept, and savings analyses for IBM mainframe customers using Syncsort/DTS, MFX, ZPSaver and related solutions. Coordinate with product teams and channel partners, stay current on competitors, and support partner business planning and QBRs. Travel (~20%) required.

Lead end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend for an enterprise data analytics platform. Design, implement, and maintain React UIs, backend services, APIs, databases, and distributed systems. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering, mentor engineers, improve quality through testing/CI, and introduce new technologies including AI-assisted development.

Design and own CI/CD and configuration management for a large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet. Define GitOps-driven, declarative reference architectures and templated production environments. Implement progressive delivery (canary, automated rollback), improve pipeline reliability and speed, evolve the Internal Developer Portal, embed AI tooling into delivery workflows, and partner with Cloud, Security, and Compliance while mentoring senior engineers.

Lead frontend architecture and implementation for Slate's digital customer experience. Drive design, code, testing, and delivery across web and mobile, mentor engineers, collaborate with UX/product, and make long-term technical trade-offs to ensure reliability and scalability.

Lead architecture and delivery of OCI's Key Management Service (KMS). Design and implement secure, scalable features integrating HSMs and encryption-at-rest. Drive distributed systems architecture, cross-team collaboration, operational readiness, and engineering best practices for production-grade cloud security services.

Design and develop low-level software and tools for computer security, vulnerability research, and reverse engineering. Implement and debug OS and application projects, review system architecture, produce documentation, collaborate with customers and Agile teams, mentor colleagues, and support quick-reaction development for national defense programs.

Design and architect cloud-first, full-stack, scalable SaaS products; provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, promote automated testing and CI/CD, integrate AI/ML features (LLM/RAG), ensure observability and security, and collaborate with product, operations, and support.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and maintains software solutions. Reviews and improves existing systems, remediates security issues, participates in planning and user story analysis, mentors engineers, and follows development best practices.

Lead design and architecture of cloud-first, full-stack enterprise software. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, promote automated testing and CI, improve scalability, troubleshoot issues, and deliver complex projects on time.

Lead architecture and implementation across the full stack, rework user and license management, and develop core runtime components for a code-first PCB design product. Drive technical direction, identify and fix technical debt, mentor engineers, perform code reviews, and build production-ready, high-performance systems involving computational geometry and advanced visualization.

Lead architecture and implementation of Tetragon features using Go and eBPF to deliver low-overhead, kernel-aware observability and runtime security. Design high-performance data pipelines, optimize database and distributed system performance, enable fleet deployment across K8s/VMs, collaborate across Cisco teams for integrations, contribute to open-source, and participate in architecture and code reviews to produce production-ready, scalable solutions.

Lead test strategy and build scalable automated frameworks to validate performance, reliability, and security of a custom Linux kernel for AI/Compute platforms. Design CI/CD and build automation, develop test suites for kernel and VM software, debug low-level system issues, benchmark performance, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Lead frontend engineering strategy, design and deliver accessible, performant government-facing web applications. Define frontend architecture, tooling, CI/CD, design systems, testing and accessibility practices; mentor engineers and collaborate with product to balance UX and implementation.

The role involves designing scalable distributed systems using Scala, enhancing feature stores for performance, and collaborating with ML engineers to resolve challenges.

As a Principal/Staff Software Engineer, you will design, implement, and lead embedded software for Optical DCI transport systems, ensuring performance and reliability.