Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

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.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Design and operate large-scale, AI-native cloud infrastructure (especially Kubernetes/AKS). Improve service quality, automate incident prevention/remediation, accelerate engineering productivity, and integrate AI tools into development workflows.

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 architecture and technical strategy for a unified telemetry and observability platform spanning endpoint collection SDKs to cloud ingestion and analytics. Design high-performance, resource-constrained, crash-survivable telemetry systems across Windows, macOS, and Linux; drive data governance, privacy/PII handling, and backward-compatible platform evolution. Mentor and lead distributed engineering teams.

Develop and operate production AI framework components, runtimes, benchmarking systems, performance tools, and integrations. Benchmark and optimize large language model training and inference across GPUs and Microsoft hardware, build automation and observability, investigate cross-stack performance and reliability issues, and deliver scalable platform improvements. Principal engineers additionally set technical direction, lead multi-team initiatives, define architectures, and mentor technical leaders.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for setting engineering standards across Shippo’s data organization. Designs and builds interfaces between application services, ML systems, and data platforms; develops scalable, secure, observable production systems; guides technical architecture through RFCs and design reviews; productionizes analytical and prototype work; advises on ML workflows and agentic AI; and mentors engineers while driving cross-team technical direction.

Lead the design and evolution of cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and infrastructure services at large scale. Define architecture across compute, networking, storage, datacenter, and AI infrastructure environments. Improve automation, lifecycle management, observability, reliability, security, and developer productivity. Guide technical strategy across engineering organizations while contributing to GPU, HPC, bare-metal, networking, and distributed computing platforms. Mentor engineers and foster technical excellence through architecture reviews and cross-organizational collaboration.

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.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

Principal frontend-focused software engineer responsible for leading frontend architecture, standards, tooling, accessibility, performance, testing, and deployment practices. The role delivers scalable customer-facing web applications, component libraries, and design systems using React or Angular. It includes cross-functional product collaboration, technical decision-making, mentoring, modernization initiatives, and occasional full-stack work. The position is remote, requires U.S. citizenship, Public Trust 6C eligibility, and approximately 0–10% business travel.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Pika’s web and multiplatform creative products. Design scalable user-facing systems, real-time collaboration, messaging, generative AI workflows, and cross-service observability. Partner with product and design leaders from ideation through launch, while driving architecture reviews, technical excellence, mentorship, and engineering strategy.

Leads the strategic direction of backend and full-stack engineering, architects scalable distributed systems and microservices, and drives modernization, reliability, security, and performance initiatives. Designs APIs, data architectures, pipelines, infrastructure, and observability practices; delivers customer-facing service improvements; establishes engineering standards; and mentors engineers. Collaborates across product and technical teams to make architecture and business trade-offs and lead large-scale initiatives from vision through production.

Design and implement high-performance backend systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle (debugging, testing, optimization), integrate third-party devices and data, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and lead architectural and technical strategy across teams.

Provides hands-on technical leadership for Pantheon’s P1 zero-to-one product and company-wide engineering strategy. Owns architecture across real-time collaboration, APIs, data, publishing, integrations, and developer experience; establishes reliability, security, observability, and delivery standards; guides build-versus-buy decisions; mentors senior engineers; partners with product, design, security, infrastructure, and customers; and contributes code to validate architecture and unblock critical initiatives.

Lead architecture and engineering for Microsoft’s enterprise Insider Risk platform. Build scalable, secure, privacy-conscious systems supporting risk modeling, behavioral analytics, detections, monitoring, investigations, workflows, and case orchestration. Partner with security, legal, HR, privacy, data science, and business teams to address complex risk scenarios. Drive technical strategy, align cross-team delivery, mentor engineers, and uphold reliability, confidentiality, compliance, and responsible data-use standards.

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 technical architect and hands-on principal engineer for the SOC Experience team, building scalable investigation workflows, agentic LLM features, automation, remediation actions, and analyst tooling. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, prototype solutions, ensure reliability and observability, and partner with product, UX, and SOC stakeholders to turn operational problems into auditable, production-grade systems.

Lead legacy application assessments and modernization strategy for U.S. Air Force systems. Own architectural decisions, technical direction, and test strategy while collaborating with government engineers, vendors, product managers, researchers, and designers. Promote secure, compliant, agile engineering practices; coach government teams; evaluate technical environments; communicate recommendations; and demonstrate modern AI-assisted development practices. The role is fully remote, requires U.S. citizenship and CAC eligibility, and involves occasional quarterly travel to Air Force bases.

Lead end-to-end design and delivery of AI-infused, enterprise full-stack applications on Azure. Architect resilient solutions, build Copilot/agentic features, enforce engineering best practices, mentor engineers, collaborate with PM/UX teams, ensure quality/reliability, and support production services and integrations.

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Founding engineer responsible for architecting and building core product systems, writing scalable Python backend code, designing and maintaining AI/ML infrastructure, instituting best development practices (testing, CI/CD), collaborating on product roadmap, and mentoring future engineers.

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.

Founding engineer responsible for architecting and building core product components, writing scalable Python code, designing and maintaining AI/ML infrastructure, implementing testing and CI/CD best practices, shipping backend production systems, collaborating on product roadmap, and mentoring future engineers.