Top Principal Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

Lead the Streaming Systems team, building high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure for real-time computation on billions of events. Mentor engineers and solve complex scaling challenges directly affecting marketing AI products.

The Principal Developer will lead the technical direction of the Exposure Management product area, contribute to architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure high engineering standards across teams.

The Principal Engineer will lead the design and delivery of core platform capabilities, focusing on scalable systems, AI application, and mentoring engineers while driving architectural decisions and improving operational systems.

Lead development, integration, and qualification of semiconductor processes; drive yield, defect reduction, and cost optimization using DOE/SPC and data analytics; enable NPI transition to high-volume manufacturing; lead failure analysis and reliability efforts; collaborate with design, manufacturing, and foundry partners and mentor engineering staff.

The role involves designing and enhancing database engine components, optimizing algorithms, and maintaining programming language support, requiring extensive experience in low-level system code development.

Build and maintain ZODL's core Rust-based wallet and infrastructure (Zallet and core libraries). Implement protocol features from specifications, improve performance and reliability, support mobile teams, participate in reviews, testing, releases, and respond urgently to bugs and security issues.

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 long-term technical strategy and execution across multiple teams, architecting and evolving foundational frontend/backend systems and platforms at massive scale. Drive AI/ML adoption, solve ambiguous, high-impact problems, remain hands-on in critical system design and implementation, and align senior leaders on roadmaps and engineering standards.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of low-latency, event-driven trading and market data platforms. Drive architecture, engineering standards, CI/CD, observability, and AI-assisted tooling; collaborate with product and solution teams; mentor engineers; ensure resilient, secure, cloud-native solutions aligned with enterprise strategy.

Technical lead embedded with Investment Strategy & Capital Management to design and build full‑stack applications, productionize AI prototypes, enhance analytics and reporting, and partner with investment teams. Hands‑on architecting, iterating, and scaling data‑rich systems using Python and SQL in a hybrid Boston environment.

Technical lead embedded with investment teams to design, prototype, and productionize AI-enabled full‑stack applications for fixed income and investment analytics. Build scalable systems, partner with analysts, write robust Python code, develop front-end visualizations, and integrate Bloomberg/financial data into production workflows.

Design and build production-grade applications, tooling, and data pipelines to support portfolio construction, asset allocation analytics, and quantitative research. Convert AI prototypes into robust full‑stack solutions, contribute to shared quantitative libraries, and maintain dashboards and production systems to support investment decision‑making.

The Principal Engineer will shape the technical strategy for messaging infrastructure, influence architectural decisions across teams, and solve complex technical problems. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, driving coherence across teams, and leading initiatives to ensure Weave's competitiveness in messaging solutions.

Lead design and delivery of a cloud-native BaaS payments platform. Architect scalable distributed systems, define API contracts, drive CI/CD and TDD practices, mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, and partner with product teams.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of PET product features; write production full‑stack code; champion testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness; mentor engineers and collaborate with product to shape technical roadmap.

The Principal Engineer will lead the technical ecosystem, ensuring hands-on execution in a high-growth environment, focusing on AI integration and full-stack development.

Lead architecture and technical roadmap for Twilio's Compliance Experiences platform. Modernize legacy systems into cloud-native microservices, drive AI-augmented development (LLMs/agents), ensure reliability/security at scale, mentor senior engineers, translate regulatory requirements into developer-friendly APIs, and steer cross-team technical strategy and incident remediation.

Build, operate, and secure cloud-native and edge infrastructure including Kubernetes, artifact pipelines, application streaming, and air-gapped appliances. Partner with product, GRC, and mission owners to design, deploy, and harden systems, remediate vulnerabilities, support audits (IL5/IL6/JWICS), and ensure trusted artifact delivery across environments.

Senior, client-facing principal to grow New Jersey land remediation practice. Responsibilities include business development, leading complex site investigation/remediation projects, technical oversight and review, NJDEP regulatory coordination with LSRP, project financial and staff management, mentoring staff, and promoting practice growth and technical excellence.

The Principal Engineer will lead AI-driven productivity initiatives, develop a strategy for integrating AI in engineering workflows, and improve collaboration across teams. Responsibilities include executing projects, ensuring code quality, and setting success metrics.

Lead architecture and implement large cross-cutting initiatives on a SaaS grantmaking platform. Produce high-quality full‑stack code (Rails/React/Node), mentor engineers, drive SDLC best practices, and champion AI-assisted development while collaborating with product, infra, and QA teams.

Lead the design of Xsolla's identity platform, develop Golang microservices for user management, and implement security protocols for compliance.

No specific responsibilities listed. Senior technical leadership role to develop and direct hedge fund and analytics technology platforms, collaborate with investment stakeholders, design and implement analytics systems, and mentor engineering staff.

The Principal Consulting Engineer will design, deploy, and optimize VMware Cloud Foundation automation solutions, ensuring they meet customer requirements while leading engagements and providing technical expertise.