Top Principal Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

Provides hands-on technical direction and architecture ownership for connected products and cloud platforms. Defines target architecture, APIs, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmaps; guides device-to-cloud systems, platform modernization, security, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. Partners across engineering, product, science, quality, IT, DevOps, and external vendors. Remains involved in backend implementation, technical investigations, code reviews, mentoring, and resolving high-risk production issues.

Lead technical direction and major multi-team projects for Chainguard Containers. Design and operate secure container build pipelines, registries, distribution systems, and adoption tooling. Remain hands-on with Go development, architecture, code review, observability, and on-call operations. Form roadmaps with product and engineering leaders, make product-level trade-offs, mentor senior engineers, collaborate across teams, contribute to open-source and industry standards, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices.

Provides senior technical leadership across engineering teams by shaping architecture, guiding complex software development, mentoring engineers, and driving scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, design reviews, API and system architecture, CI/CD and tooling improvements, cross-team technical alignment, project leadership, and partnership with product and design stakeholders. The role is remote with quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Provides principal-level technical leadership across engineering teams, shaping architecture, engineering standards, scalable software solutions, and delivery practices. The role combines hands-on software development with design reviews, technical decision-making, mentoring, CI/CD and platform improvements, system reliability, and cross-team collaboration. It also partners with product and design stakeholders and may lead high-impact initiatives. Remote work is available with required quarterly travel to Tampa, Florida.

Develops, tests, documents, maintains, and enhances software solutions using Appian and related technologies. Integrates Appian with external systems and services, resolves technical problems, remediates security vulnerabilities, improves performance, and participates in planning and user-story analysis. The role follows software development processes, documents standards, and mentors engineers while helping prioritize work for a development team.

Lead technical direction for Elastic’s billing experience platform. Design and evolve public and internal APIs, build full-stack billing and account-management features, and shape scalable architecture and data models. Improve reliability, observability, deployment, CI/CD, and incident response across cloud services. Mentor engineers, review technical work, influence roadmap priorities, collaborate across Product, Design, SRE, Finance, and Cloud teams, and participate in on-call rotations.

Designs, develops, configures, and supports Edifecs healthcare EDI solutions and transaction mappings. Works with 837, 834, 835, 820, and 270/271 transactions; troubleshoots transmissions, configures validations, and develops Groovy scripts. Leads Agile and DevOps efforts, mentors engineers, supports QA, and designs scalable AWS applications using containers, microservices, and CI/CD. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, performance tuning, and stakeholder consultation.

Own the architecture and technical direction of NodeZero’s database platform. Design scalable PostgreSQL systems, multi-tenant data models, graph-based asset models, partitioning, replication, and zero-downtime schema migrations. Establish database standards, governance, and performance practices while writing production code, authoring design documents, mentoring engineers, and influencing teams across the data pipeline.

Leads the design and development of scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered features such as semantic search, vector databases, RAG, and LLM orchestration. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, code reviews, and engineering standards enforcement. Collaborates cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust solutions, champions AI-assisted development tools, builds developer experience tooling, and drives innovation, quality, security, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Leads the design, implementation, integration, and optimization of global enterprise Finance solutions. Responsibilities include ERP solution leadership, Finance process transformation, system integration, data migration, reconciliation, testing, quality governance, deployment readiness, and post-production stabilization. The role also identifies AI automation opportunities and develops governed AI-enabled solutions across ERP, data, API, and workflow platforms while advising Finance, Product, Architecture, and Engineering stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate resilient AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code modules in a regulated medical-device environment. Improve security, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, deployments, and operational support. Collaborate with Engineering, QA, IT, and Security teams while troubleshooting distributed systems and providing technical leadership across global teams.

Serve as the most senior hands-on engineer for a consumer-facing platform in a regulated environment. Write production code, own architecture, set engineering standards, guide product direction, partner with the CEO, transition work from offshore engineers, promote AI tooling, and build an in-house engineering team.

Leads the roadmap, architecture, security, and organizational adoption of CI/CD and release infrastructure. Designs scalable release gates, hardens supply chains, directs engineers through complex projects, manages severe incidents, and drives cross-functional technical alignment. The role remains hands-on through code reviews, prototyping, debugging, documentation, mentorship, and design reviews while primarily achieving impact through team leadership.

Design, build, and operate distributed storage and file-system platforms for cloud-scale AI training and inference. Architect storage and caching for Kubernetes and GPU workloads, improve performance, reliability, observability, and resiliency, diagnose cross-layer production issues, and lead architecture reviews. Partner across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and AI platform teams while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term storage strategy.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Design, build, and operate billing microservices for metering, subscriptions, invoicing, payments, and financial workflows. Lead projects end-to-end, ensure financial correctness and reliability, improve observability, investigate incidents, and collaborate with Product, Finance, and other teams to deliver scalable billing infrastructure.

Designs, develops, and maintains high-performance full-stack Order Management System features for financial trading applications. The role focuses on Java backend development, frontend functionality, scalability, low latency, troubleshooting, architecture, code reviews, mentoring, and technical collaboration with product and engineering teams.

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.

Designs and implements Go-based control-plane software for custom AI inference hardware. Responsibilities span system management APIs, Linux services, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, observability, security, firmware updates, distributed systems, and workload management. The role requires hands-on debugging across application, operating system, firmware, and hardware boundaries, plus technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and production ownership. Regular on-site lab work includes server racking, system bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and documentation.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance while driving reliability, automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical strategy. Investigate emerging technologies, oversee complex problem-solving, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with organizational goals.

Define and advance Mastercard’s enterprise data architecture strategy across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Lead modernization of global data platforms, establish architecture standards, enable batch and real-time analytics, and promote Data Mesh and data-as-a-product capabilities. Ensure security, resiliency, governance, regulatory compliance, and scalability across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Advise executive stakeholders, evaluate emerging AI-enabled data technologies, and mentor global engineering teams.

Leads Mastercard’s enterprise data architecture strategy across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Defines secure, resilient, compliant architecture standards; modernizes legacy platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP; and advances Data Mesh, real-time streaming, batch analytics, and AI-enabled data capabilities. Serves as a senior technical authority and executive advisor, evaluates emerging technologies, drives architecture governance, and mentors global engineering teams.

Design and scale critical, highly-available services; set technical direction across teams; apply best practices for availability, scalability, cost, and operational excellence; leverage AI tools and high-velocity workflows; mentor engineers and solve ambiguous, company-wide technical problems.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Fanatics Betting and Gaming’s scalable, fault-tolerant platform. Design cross-cutting systems, guide complex initiatives across teams, establish engineering standards, resolve systemic technical risks, and improve reliability, security, performance, and operational readiness. Partner with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Security leaders while mentoring senior engineers and influencing executive-level technical decisions.

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.