Top Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Build and own Arcadia’s internal developer platform across a large-scale data lakehouse and Kubernetes applications. Develop self-service APIs, templates, golden paths, CI/CD capabilities, observability, security controls, and reliability practices. Lead platform migrations, improve developer experience, manage stakeholder needs and costs, set technical direction, and coach senior engineers. The role requires hands-on software development alongside expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure as code, SLOs, incident response, and platform product management.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Forward Financing’s core fintech platform. Design scalable distributed backend systems, guide cross-team initiatives, establish engineering best practices, resolve incidents, and mentor engineers. The role owns the technical roadmap and architectural vision while partnering across teams to improve reliability, observability, code quality, and delivery. Ruby on Rails expertise is required, along with strong communication, influence, agile development experience, and a broad backend or full-stack perspective.

Lead hands-on development of scalable full-stack web applications and core platform services for a clinical data and analytics platform. Influence architecture, engineering standards, security, reliability, and maintainability; mentor engineers; resolve distributed-system production issues; and collaborate across product and QA. Integrate LLMs, AI-assisted workflows, and agentic patterns into secure .NET and Python enterprise systems while supporting documentation, compliance, and the full software development lifecycle.

Build and maintain content ingestion pipelines, migrate legacy Perl systems to Python and containerized services, implement durable workflows, troubleshoot production issues, and apply AI, ML, NLP, and LLMs to content processing. The role also spans backend services and customer portals using PHP and React/TypeScript, requiring strong production engineering judgment, operational skills, collaboration, and ownership from problem discovery through deployment.

Leads backend software design and delivery for a healthcare revenue cycle product. Owns system architecture, technical decisions, reliability, testing, observability, and production readiness across an enterprise monolith and newer platform services. Establishes engineering standards, mentors engineers, collaborates with product and architecture teams, and guides responsible adoption of AI-assisted development tools.

Lead the design and implementation of a distributed compute control plane for managing virtual machines across Akamai’s cloud fleet. Own database partitioning and sharding, placement reconciliation, asynchronous operations, consistency guarantees, idempotency, fencing, and saga-style workflows. The role requires deep distributed systems, database, containerization, Kubernetes, and controller-pattern expertise, along with strong Python or Go development skills.

Design and evolve distributed search and analytics systems for the Splunk platform. Lead complex engineering efforts from design through delivery, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and work with customers to resolve production issues.

Build and improve Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for Linux and Windows containers. Develop distributed cloud infrastructure, automation, observability tooling, and reliability improvements at global scale. Support AI-native infrastructure, including GPU orchestration, model deployment, inference, and platform operations. Accelerate engineering workflows, prevent production incidents, integrate AI tools, and contribute to Kubernetes and cloud-native platform innovation.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Leads software engineering for vector search and information retrieval capabilities in Azure data products. Designs complex architectures, develops high-quality and performant code, creates comprehensive test strategies, collaborates across research and engineering teams, and mentors engineers. Drives product integration, scalability, performance, release planning, and roadmap execution while applying expertise in algorithms, database internals, performance engineering, and AI-based retrieval.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable, secure Azure networking software and automation tools. Act as DRI, monitor production, troubleshoot incidents, run root-cause analysis, and drive reliability, performance, and cost improvements. Collaborate with PMs and architects, participate in design/code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion security, privacy, and compliance.

Provides senior technical leadership across engineering teams by shaping architecture, guiding complex software development, mentoring engineers, and driving scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, design reviews, API and system architecture, CI/CD and tooling improvements, cross-team technical alignment, project leadership, and partnership with product and design stakeholders. The role is remote with quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Provides principal-level technical leadership across engineering teams, shaping architecture, engineering standards, scalable software solutions, and delivery practices. The role combines hands-on software development with design reviews, technical decision-making, mentoring, CI/CD and platform improvements, system reliability, and cross-team collaboration. It also partners with product and design stakeholders and may lead high-impact initiatives. Remote work is available with required quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Lead engineering for a hyperscale deployment platform serving Microsoft 365 services. Design and deliver scalable deployment features across the full software lifecycle, mentor engineers, and drive automation and AI-powered solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, performance, and operational excellence. Collaborate with product managers and partner teams while ensuring high-quality, maintainable, production-grade software.

Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft's Windows ML compiler stack. Design high-performance compiler infrastructure, execution engines, optimization frameworks, and developer tools supporting CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads. Drive NPU enablement, graph optimization, scheduling, memory management, code generation, and hardware abstraction. Partner with silicon vendors and internal teams, influence AI hardware and platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers developing on-device and generative AI capabilities.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, and execution of AI performance, framework, benchmarking, and developer-productivity initiatives. Drives cross-team architecture, resolves complex systems trade-offs, mentors technical leaders, and contributes hands-on through prototyping, implementation, reviews, debugging, observability, and automation. Delivers measurable improvements in model onboarding speed, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity efficiency across models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and hardware.

Designs and develops innovative spatial computing, extended reality, and AI experiences for Fidelity’s innovation center. Responsibilities include rapidly prototyping applications, collaborating with design and product teams, building APIs and cloud-based systems, integrating hardware, supporting live interactive environments, and evaluating emerging technologies. The role requires expertise with immersive development platforms, databases, AWS, real-time graphics, and troubleshooting interactive experiences.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Own the networking architecture and roadmap for AKS Flex and Unbounded, enabling secure, reliable, high-performance Kubernetes connectivity across sites, clouds, edge environments, and on-premises infrastructure. Design overlay and underlay networks, routing, encrypted tunnels, eBPF dataplanes, and distributed systems for high-latency and partitioned environments. Integrate InfiniBand and RDMA for AI workloads, lead cross-team architecture efforts, improve global fleet performance and reliability, and participate in production operations and on-call rotations.

Build product features across multiple technologies, collaborate with subject matter experts to improve member experiences, and enhance the technology platform. The role requires strong individual technical contribution, business judgment, comfort with ambiguity, startup experience, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively. Engineers should understand technologies deeply, learn continuously, and balance short- and long-term business value.

Provides technical leadership for architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed data platforms supporting Azure network telemetry. Designs streaming and batch systems, establishes reusable engineering patterns, drives cross-team technical strategy, and owns capabilities from design through production operations. Ensures scalability, reliability, security, performance, data quality, and operational excellence while mentoring engineers and influencing technical leaders. The role also involves architectural reviews, dependency management, risk reduction, and applying AI or machine learning approaches to operational systems.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Lead delivery of Unity Engine’s C#/.NET integration, including GC, JIT, AOT, runtime libraries, and compiler toolchains. Define technical vision, improve performance and reliability, guide cross-functional development, communicate roadmaps and metrics, support users, and mentor team members. The role requires deep C# and C++ expertise, compiler knowledge, hardware architecture understanding, and proprietary game engine development experience.

Own the architecture and technical direction of NodeZero’s database platform. Design scalable PostgreSQL systems, multi-tenant data models, graph-based asset models, partitioning, replication, and zero-downtime schema migrations. Establish database standards, governance, and performance practices while writing production code, authoring design documents, mentoring engineers, and influencing teams across the data pipeline.

Design and build Azure Kubernetes Service features and AI-native infrastructure, improve service reliability and developer velocity, automate incident prevention/remediation, integrate AI tools, and operate distributed, containerized systems at cloud scale.