Top Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

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 technical direction and deliver large-scale ML platform infrastructure including feature store, model serving, experimentation, and training pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team initiatives, resolve system-wide issues (latency, reliability, GPU utilization), and define safe ML deployment paths from registration through rollout, monitoring, and rollback.

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.

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.

Provide technical leadership for cross-functional teams, create and communicate technical vision and strategy, lead new initiatives without defined procedures, remove roadblocks, resolve issues, mentor engineers, and perform related duties. Remote role based in Canada; GM does not provide immigration sponsorship.

Lead development of core client systems and engine-level infrastructure in Unity/C#. Diagnose and fix cross-cutting performance issues, upgrade third-party SDKs, evolve build tooling, produce design docs, scope multi-week infrastructure initiatives, mentor engineers, and drive profiling, optimization, and architecture changes to enable future features.

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.

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 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.

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.

Lead design, development, and delivery of mission-critical SIEM platform features. Define technical vision, own quality and uptime, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, build AI-assisted workflows, and drive performance, monitoring, and architecture decisions.

Lead architecture and technical direction for an AI-first SaaS product (Growth Studio). Define scalable services, APIs, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows; guide integrations, run architecture/code reviews and POCs; mentor engineers; produce technical documentation; and partner with product, UX, QA, and ops to deliver reliable, secure, and maintainable platform capabilities for GovCon customers.

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.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Serve as technical lead between NVIDIA and hyperscale CSPs on GPU firmware and system software. Drive firmware update orchestration, recovery procedures, multi-GPU coordination, telemetry/health monitoring, and incorporate CSP feedback into NVIDIAs roadmap to improve fleet-scale manageability and reliability.

Lead technical engagements with cloud service providers on rack-scale system software and firmware. Drive architecture alignment, integration readiness, error handling and recovery, health telemetry, firmware orchestration, and serviceability. Capture CSP feedback, influence NVIDIA system software design, improve tooling and tests, and mitigate execution risks through early collaboration.

Serve as NVIDIA's CSP-facing principal for end-to-end performance: drive characterization with hyperscaler engineering teams, gather and synthesize workload feedback, prioritize optimizations across CUDA/NCCL/driver/firmware, validate benchmarks and tools, update stress/profiling tooling, define test strategies, and ensure performance integration and acceptance for customer-representative configurations.

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.

Lead architecture, integration, installation, upgrade, and enterprise implementation of Privileged Access Management tools (CyberArk, Entra, BeyondTrust). Design and code complex software solutions, align business strategy with technology, provide technical guidance, and lead problem-solving and documentation for PAM initiatives.

Design, develop, test and maintain mainframe applications; optimize COBOL/CICS/DB2 performance; implement IBM MQ messaging; write JCL for batch jobs; support production, troubleshoot incidents, and mentor junior developers while following SDLC, CI/CD and Agile practices.

Lead design and reliability of a financial data extraction platform, minimizing human validation through AI, and enhance system correctness for scale.

Drive architecture, design, and implementation of large-scale software systems. Lead technical strategy, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, ensure code quality and operational reliability, and guide delivery of complex features and platform improvements.

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.

Lead architecture, modernization, and development of Group Insurance applications. Modernize mainframe monoliths into Java microservices and micro-frontends on cloud, mentor distributed Agile teams, collaborate with enterprise architecture, product owners and infrastructure, and enable test automation and integrations. Approximately 10% domestic travel.