Top Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Leads architecture and development of SailPoint’s large-scale, multi-tenant identity security SaaS platform. Translates business strategy into technical roadmaps, designs reliable microservices and infrastructure, drives modernization from monoliths to distributed systems, mentors engineers, reviews designs, delivers code, and communicates technology strategy to executives and stakeholders. The role also requires adoption and oversight of AI-assisted engineering tools and technologies.

Leads enterprise software architecture and development across multiple product lines, establishes design standards, reviews solutions, troubleshoots complex issues, and provides technical guidance across teams. Supports modernization of on-premise systems and migration to Azure cloud. Partners with engineering and executive leaders on technology strategy, security adaptability, automation, and solution design using agile methods.

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.

Principal Frontend Engineer responsible for defining and governing large-scale frontend architecture across clinical applications. Leads modernization from fragmented systems to a React-based platform using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL, and shared component standards. Drives migration strategy, technical governance, performance improvements, AI-assisted development tooling, and cross-team alignment while mentoring engineers. Advises on CI/CD, AWS infrastructure, Oracle integrations, legacy Perl utilities, security, hiring, and long-term workforce planning.

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.

Designs, develops, and optimizes embedded firmware for microcontroller-based motion control systems. Responsibilities include bare-metal and RTOS development, motor and sensor interfaces, low-level drivers, hardware bring-up, board-level debugging, peripheral integration, performance optimization, documentation, design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Leads architecture, technology strategy, and execution for FMI’s CRM and Ordering Management transformation. The role directs migration from Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Salesforce, defines transition and future-state architectures, oversees integrations, data migration, governance, security, and platform roadmaps, and establishes modern engineering practices. It also mentors engineering teams, drives DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, AI-assisted development, and reliable delivery across enterprise platforms including LIMS, billing, and medical reporting systems.

Develop and enhance Onshape’s full-stack collaborative CAD platform, including user interface, backend services, modeling workflows, performance optimization, and large-scale data handling. Collaborate with product, UX, and QA teams, participate in code reviews, resolve defects, and provide technical guidance on system design and implementation.

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.

Leads the architecture, design, and implementation of Vertica’s core database engine. Drives innovations across query optimization, distributed execution, storage, concurrency, scalability, and performance using C++. Defines long-term technical strategy, architects complex distributed database features, guides testing, collaborates with customers and cross-functional teams, mentors engineers, and influences product roadmaps. Requires deep database internals expertise, large-scale systems experience, and strong technical leadership.

Designs and leads large-scale software subsystems, architecture, coding standards, code reviews, debugging tools, performance optimization, refactoring, and QA automation. Guides business and technical solution definition, evaluates production readiness using objective metrics, and develops web content management, workflow automation, integrations, and database solutions. The role is telecommuting eligible throughout the United States.

Leads architecture, technical direction, and hands-on development of robotic manipulation software. Develops motion planning, kinematics, control, multi-arm coordination, simulation, hardware integration, and distributed-system interfaces. Oversees testing, deployment, production support, troubleshooting, design reviews, and engineering standards while mentoring engineers and coordinating with multidisciplinary teams.

Lead development and operation of a scalable Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform. Shape the engineering roadmap, deliver enterprise platform capabilities, establish best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate across Agile teams. Build highly available and fault-tolerant production services using Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies, while applying expertise in Go, Python or Bash, networking, Linux, and CI/CD practices.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s core billing platform across cloud providers. Design and operate scalable billing systems, data pipelines, APIs, and PostgreSQL architecture. Improve reliability, observability, incident response, deployment, and CI/CD practices. Partner with SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, Product, Design, and Finance teams, guide architecture and roadmap decisions, review technical work, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call rotations.

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.

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.

Lead the architecture and implementation of scalable cloud compute functionality across ARM64 and x86 platforms. Design hypervisor layers, cross-platform build pipelines, and performance optimization solutions while writing, reviewing, documenting, and testing production software. Coordinate globally to deliver compute features and resolve low-level software issues. Provide technical, organizational, and functional leadership to engineers.

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient Azure VM Scale Set cloud services. Own features from architecture through deployment and operations, solve distributed-systems challenges at hyperscale, and drive reliability, security, performance, disaster recovery, testing, monitoring, automation, and engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform capabilities and customer outcomes.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for AI workloads. Design secure, reliable, scalable distributed systems; coordinate engineering teams; define testing and deployment strategies; improve observability and operational readiness; investigate production issues; and mentor engineers while advancing engineering practices.

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.

Leads end-to-end design, development, quality, and integration of complex software solutions and cloud services. Provides technical leadership for enterprise-wide projects, manages engineering processes, risks, dependencies, and delivery priorities, and writes code across the software ecosystem. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable, user-centric technology solutions, primarily supporting healthcare caregivers.

Work with customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver cloud-based solutions. Lead design, identify dependencies, mentor engineers, act as DRI and on-call, and improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance. Contribute to open-source assets and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to produce extensible, maintainable code and scalable solution patterns.

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.