Principal Software Engineer (Remote)

Role overview Lead complex consulting engagements as a senior technical strategist, helping clients turn ambiguous goals into durable software platforms and measurable outcomes. You’ll advise on architecture and platform direction, contribute hands-on across varied technology environments, and help client teams adopt emerging approaches, including production AI systems.

Responsibilities - Build client trust quickly by understanding their domain, objectives, and constraints. - Set platform engineering strategy and guide delivery, connecting long-term architecture to working software. - Advise on scalability, reliability, security, performance, and platform evolution in relation to product and business goals. - Help deliver systems across the machine learning lifecycle, from data preparation through deployment, integration, and monitoring. - Surface practical technical and product options, facilitate feedback and retrospectives, and document decisions and follow-up actions. - Mentor colleagues and share practices that improve delivery, collaboration, and technical quality.

Requirements - Typically 10 or more years of repeated success delivering software across a variety of projects and client contexts. - Demonstrated leadership in high-stakes consulting and the delivery of production-grade platforms, reusable tools, infrastructure, or workflows. - Broad experience across programming languages, frameworks, and technology ecosystems, with a record of building maintainable software collaboratively. - Experience taking AI or agent-based systems from prototype to production, including attention to infrastructure, authentication, and observability. - Ability to lead modernization, replatforming, and architecture work while balancing technical needs with product and user outcomes. - Strong communication and facilitation skills for guiding stakeholders through complex or uncertain decisions; experience mentoring teams and applying AI development tools effectively.

Benefits and work setup - Remote-first, distributed across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with regional hubs and coworking support. Most engagements do not require travel. - Learning resources, annual learning time and stipend, flexible paid time off, and 12 weeks of new-parent leave for eligible employees. - Published US base salary bands vary by geographic structure, from $151,535–$189,418 to $176,705–$220,881.