Principal Engineer (Remote from US) at Jobgether – United States

Principal Engineer (Remote from US)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Principal Engineer - Nova in United States.As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical leader, driving architectural strategy and engineering excellence across multiple product domains. You will shape long-term system architecture while ensuring that current development efforts remain efficient, scalable, and aligned with business goals. This role requires balancing technical vision with practical delivery, mentoring senior engineers and tech leads, and influencing cross-functional teams. You will tackle complex challenges involving distributed systems, multi-agent frameworks, and large-scale data pipelines, while guiding teams toward best practices in coding, performance, and reliability. The ideal candidate is highly experienced in cloud-native architectures, data engineering, and AI/ML integration, with the ability to translate technical strategy into actionable outcomes.Accountabilities:

• Lead architectural strategy and provide technical authority across multiple product domains, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Establish and maintain organization-wide technical standards, architectural patterns, and best practices for security, performance, and maintainability.
• Mentor and guide senior engineers and tech leads, fostering a high-performance engineering culture.
• Oversee design documents and architectural proposals, ensuring adherence to long-term architectural roadmaps.
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex system challenges, supporting teams in resolving critical issues.
• Communicate architectural vision, strategy, and roadmap progress to engineering teams and executive leadership.
• Balance immediate development needs with long-term architectural integrity, making pragmatic decisions about technical debt and priorities.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a hands-on architect or senior technical leadership role.
• Proven experience designing and delivering complex, distributed systems (e.g., microservices, event-driven architectures) in cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Deep technical expertise in core technology stacks such as Scala (or Java), Play, Kafka, Flink, Pulsar, and S3.
• Experience with AI/ML integration, multi-agent frameworks, and working with multiple LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.).
• Strong data engineering skills, including SQL/NoSQL databases, caching strategies, data pipelines, and storage architectures.
• Operational excellence with CI/CD pipelines, observability, and DevOps practices in consumer-scale systems.
• Excellent leadership, mentorship, and communication skills, with the ability to influence without authority and translate technical concepts for business stakeholders.
• Strategic thinking to balance architectural perfection with practical delivery timelines.
• Preferred: experience in modularizing monolithic architectures, building messaging platforms at scale, and direct customer engagement for technical problem-solving.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
• Remote work flexibility, with optional in-person collaboration opportunities.
• Opportunity to influence high-impact products and technical strategy.
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment fostering mentorship and professional growth.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Supportive and inclusive culture that values diversity and empowers teams to innovate.

Why Apply Through Jobgether?We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.We appreciate your interest and wish you the best! Why Apply Through Jobgether?
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