Top Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Design and deliver developer tooling, frameworks, reusable templates, AI-assisted development infrastructure, authentication and identity platforms, and cloud-native services. Build and operate Java and AWS systems using Spring Boot and Kubernetes, establish engineering standards and guardrails, improve reliability and performance, and lead complex technical projects. Partner across teams to drive adoption, alignment, and measurable engineering productivity outcomes.

Owns resilience, performance, scalability, and operational cost improvements for a cloud-native platform. Designs and delivers full-stack solutions, builds monitoring and analysis capabilities, performs architectural and code reviews, and resolves complex production issues. The role requires pragmatic modernization judgment, AI-assisted development experience, customer or user accountability, and participation in a weekend on-call rotation.

Defines long-term software architecture and technical strategy for Bose’s automotive technology portfolio. Designs scalable, modular, configurable platforms that operate across automotive hardware, operating systems, customers, and product generations. Partners with audio, acoustics, signal processing, and AI/ML teams to productionize advanced capabilities, engages OEMs and ecosystem partners, leads complex architecture decisions, resolves technical challenges, and mentors senior engineers and architects.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable production systems for Toast’s retail customers. The role sets long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicates technical direction, mentors senior engineers, improves engineering productivity, diagnoses performance issues, and drives initiatives amid ambiguity. Engineers collaborate directly with retail customers, visit stores, understand operational workflows, and use AI tools to improve development velocity and quality.

Principal Software Engineer designing and delivering full-stack, cloud-native solutions across React, Node.js, TypeScript, and Java. The role leads Micro Frontend strategy, AI-driven workflow development, distributed systems architecture, data quality, security, testing, observability, and reliability initiatives. Responsibilities include solving complex technical problems, collaborating cross-functionally, establishing engineering best practices, mentoring engineers, and driving scalable, resilient software delivery in an agile environment.

Lead design and implementation of scalable, secure full-stack web applications and core platform modules. Influence architecture, deliver clean well-tested code, mentor engineers, integrate LLM/AI services responsibly, diagnose production issues, and collaborate across product, QA, and platform teams to meet regulatory and quality standards.

Lead architecture and technical execution for Toast’s Payroll and Team Management products. Own authentication, authorization, and organizational hierarchy across a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Drive high-scale, full-stack initiatives, modern agentic development practices, integrations, technical strategy, quality standards, deployment practices, and cross-functional collaboration. Mentor engineers across teams and leverage AI tools and LLM integration to improve software development velocity and quality.

This role involves designing and developing core modules for an enterprise-level clinical data platform, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and collaborating with teams for software development and testing.

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.

Lead high-leverage technical work across teams: define architecture and patterns, drive end-to-end delivery and operational excellence, ship AI-enabled systems, mentor engineers, set AI guardrails, and represent technical leadership internally and externally.

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you'll define and drive the technical strategy for customer experience platforms, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineering teams to enhance customer and agent experiences.

Lead design, build, deployment, and operation of highly resilient, high-throughput configuration and publishing systems. Define long-term architecture and strategy, mentor senior engineers, diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to improve engineering productivity and platform capabilities.

Design and build scalable AI-first experimentation and growth systems: telemetry, experiment assignment, feature flighting, rollout automation, and risk controls. Lead cross-team initiatives, partner with Product/Data Science/Design, write production code, review implementations, and raise engineering and experimentation quality across products.

ABCorp is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of their Client Experience Platform, overseeing frontend, backend, and data architecture while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product and UX teams.

Lead a full-stack product team to build secure financial and card issuance SaaS solutions while ensuring system reliability and compliance in a regulated environment.

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 design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Own cross-team, platform-level engineering initiatives end-to-end: architecture, migrations, observability, on-call, and customer outcomes. Drive AI-native tooling and agentic AI adoption, mentor senior engineers, and set technical standards across teams.

Design and implement music and voice processing algorithms in MATLAB/Simulink and deploy them as embedded real-time DSP software across multiple DSP platforms. Develop unit and system tests, collaborate with research and audio engineers, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and use lab tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, emulators) to verify functionality.

Lead reliability, scalability, and operational excellence for large-scale Java distributed systems. Drive architecture improvements, incident management, observability, SLO adoption, automation, infrastructure strategy, and performance optimization. Influence cross-team technical decisions, mentor engineers, establish reliability standards, and guide incident response and durable remediation. The role requires hybrid work in Boston and participation in an on-call rotation.

Leads the architecture and development of scalable cloud-native enterprise applications on Microsoft Azure. Designs reusable software capabilities, front-end interfaces, database architectures, and microservices; owns the full software development lifecycle; and promotes secure, test-driven, maintainable engineering. Partners with architects and product managers, evaluates modern technologies, resolves performance and reliability issues, presents architectural decisions, documents systems, and mentors engineering teams while ensuring cybersecurity, data governance, and regulatory compliance.

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.

Design and implement scalable cloud architectures to ingest and normalize telematics data, build front-end experiences, develop and secure APIs, optimize databases and performance, mentor engineers, lead technical direction, and ensure system reliability, scalability, and security for telematics-driven safety products.

Lead design and implementation of Azure full‑stack, scalable skilling platform features. Drive CI/CD, reliability, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled capabilities. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and improve test automation and observability for enterprise-scale services.

Define technical direction for hyperscale Azure Storage components; architect, develop, test, and support highly scalable, secure, compliant, and highly available cloud services. Lead multiple engineering projects, improve reliability, scalability, performance, consistency, and observability, and apply AIOps for incident detection, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence.