Remote Cloud Software Engineer Jobs
Remote cloud software engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors from enterprise SaaS and fintech to healthcare technology and cloud-native infrastructure, at remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams of every size. Employers hiring remotely right now include NVIDIA, Wolters Kluwer, and Temporal Technologies, covering roles from junior cloud engineers to principal and staff-level positions. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Primary Work Location
Lincoln, NE or Remote in the U.S. | Full-Time
Starting Salary: $120,000+ annually (actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and geographic location.)
Overview
The Principal Engineer, Cloud Software provides technical direction and hands-on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable. Partners with engineering, product, science, quality, IT and DevOps, and external technology partners to turn complex needs into practical technical direction.
Professional Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Qualifications
- Typically 10 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.
- Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
- Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.
Preferred Experience
- Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.
- Regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.
- Platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.
- Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.
General
- Self starter and motivated. Enjoy challenges. Proven drive to achieve goals.
- Creative. High insight, curiosity and problem solving ability. High attention to detail.
- Good interpersonal and networking skills.
- Team player. Enjoys and works well with other people in a team environment.
- Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
- Dependable, positive attitude and good attendance.
- High ethics, integrity, honesty, patience.
Position Responsibilities
Architecture and Platform Direction:
- Define and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication.
- Simplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired.
- Guide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden.
- Maintain architecture decisions and documentation so LI-COR retains the knowledge, access, data portability, and technical control needed to make sound future decisions.
Device to Cloud Architecture:
- Guide how devices produce data and how cloud services receive, process, store, and present it, including schemas, batching, retries, deduplication, derived data, and retention.
- Partner with Firmware and Hardware Engineering to identify connectivity, scalability, reliability, support, and cost implications early in product development.
- Review new products and sensor integrations for downstream effects on cloud services, storage, analytics, applications, and cost-to-serve.
Reliability Security and Operations:
- Define end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, performance, security, privacy, scalability, recovery, and supportability.
- Partner with Engineering and IT and DevOps on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release architecture, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness.
- Provide technical leadership during significant incidents and recurring performance or connectivity issues, driving root cause correction and durable improvement.
- Ensure platform designs support applicable validation, data separation, retention, privacy, auditability, and customer contractual requirements.
Technical Leadership:
- Serve as a technical partner to the Software and Cloud leader and as an architecture authority across engineering, product, science, quality, and operations.
- Remain hands-on through backend design and implementation, prototypes, technical investigations, code reviews, and resolution of high risk production issues.
- Translate product intent into technically complete approaches and communicate tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leaders.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture capability across employees and partners so knowledge and decision quality do not depend on one person.
- Act as LI-COR's technical counterpart with cloud, data, connectivity, and engineering partners while business leaders retain commercial and contract authority.
General
- Periodic travel to LI-COR locations, partner sites, or team working sessions may be required.
- Other job related duties as assigned.
Primary Work Location
Lincoln, NE or Remote in the U.S. | Full-Time
Starting Salary: $120,000+ annually (actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and geographic location.)
Overview
The Principal Engineer, Cloud Software provides technical direction and hands-on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable. Partners with engineering, product, science, quality, IT and DevOps, and external technology partners to turn complex needs into practical technical direction.
Professional Qualifications
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Qualifications
- Typically 10 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.
- Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.
- Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.
- Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
- Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
- Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
- Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.
- Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.
Preferred Experience
- Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.
- Regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.
- Platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.
- Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.
General
- Self starter and motivated. Enjoy challenges. Proven drive to achieve goals.
- Creative. High insight, curiosity and problem solving ability. High attention to detail.
- Good interpersonal and networking skills.
- Team player. Enjoys and works well with other people in a team environment.
- Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
- Dependable, positive attitude and good attendance.
- High ethics, integrity, honesty, patience.
Position Responsibilities
Architecture and Platform Direction:
- Define and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication.
- Simplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired.
- Guide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden.
- Maintain architecture decisions and documentation so LI-COR retains the knowledge, access, data portability, and technical control needed to make sound future decisions.
Device to Cloud Architecture:
- Guide how devices produce data and how cloud services receive, process, store, and present it, including schemas, batching, retries, deduplication, derived data, and retention.
- Partner with Firmware and Hardware Engineering to identify connectivity, scalability, reliability, support, and cost implications early in product development.
- Review new products and sensor integrations for downstream effects on cloud services, storage, analytics, applications, and cost-to-serve.
Reliability Security and Operations:
- Define end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, performance, security, privacy, scalability, recovery, and supportability.
- Partner with Engineering and IT and DevOps on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release architecture, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness.
- Provide technical leadership during significant incidents and recurring performance or connectivity issues, driving root cause correction and durable improvement.
- Ensure platform designs support applicable validation, data separation, retention, privacy, auditability, and customer contractual requirements.
Technical Leadership:
- Serve as a technical partner to the Software and Cloud leader and as an architecture authority across engineering, product, science, quality, and operations.
- Remain hands-on through backend design and implementation, prototypes, technical investigations, code reviews, and resolution of high risk production issues.
- Translate product intent into technically complete approaches and communicate tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leaders.
- Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture capability across employees and partners so knowledge and decision quality do not depend on one person.
- Act as LI-COR's technical counterpart with cloud, data, connectivity, and engineering partners while business leaders retain commercial and contract authority.
General
- Periodic travel to LI-COR locations, partner sites, or team working sessions may be required.
- Other job related duties as assigned.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote cloud software engineer jobs.
- Proficiency with at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience designing and deploying microservices or distributed systems at production scale
- Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or another backend language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
Tips for Your Remote Cloud Software Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote cloud software engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and apply directly without sifting through non-remote listings mixed in.
Show cloud deployments in your portfolio
Remote hiring managers can't see you work, so your GitHub repositories, architecture diagrams, or Terraform and CloudFormation scripts need to do the talking. Link to deployed projects with real infrastructure decisions documented, not just code snippets.
Demonstrate async communication in your application
Distributed teams screen for written clarity before the first interview. Write your cover note and follow-up emails the way you'd write a technical design doc: concise, structured, and easy to read asynchronously. That signals you'll fit remote engineering culture from day one.
Target remote-first companies specifically
Remote-first engineering organizations, not companies that went remote reluctantly, have tooling, onboarding, and team norms built for distributed cloud work. Look for companies whose engineering blogs or job descriptions reference async standups, documented architecture decisions, or distributed team practices.
Remote Cloud Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote cloud software engineer job?
Remote cloud software engineer roles go to candidates who can prove they work well without constant oversight. Remote-first companies and distributed engineering teams screen heavily for written communication, async collaboration habits, and the ability to scope and deliver work independently. Strong cloud platform fluency across AWS, Azure, or GCP matters most, and candidates who can show deployed projects, infrastructure-as-code work, or open-source contributions stand out in async hiring processes.
Which companies hire remote cloud software engineers?
Remote cloud software engineer roles are posted by NVIDIA, Wolters Kluwer, and Temporal Technologies and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first software companies, distributed fintech and healthtech teams, and cloud consulting firms account for the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote cloud software engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level cloud software engineer roles are harder to land because employers expect you to ramp up independently with minimal in-person onboarding. Cloud-native startups and remote-first SaaS companies are your most realistic targets early on. A portfolio of personal cloud projects, public repositories, or completed certifications from AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure gives hiring managers something concrete to evaluate before they extend a remote offer.
Do you need a degree for remote cloud software engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers in cloud engineering weigh demonstrated cloud platform skills, certifications, and a verifiable project history alongside or instead of a four-year degree. Candidates who can show hands-on infrastructure, deployment, or backend work in a portfolio are regularly hired without a traditional computer science degree, particularly at remote-first companies and smaller distributed engineering teams.
Which industries hire the most remote cloud software engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote cloud software engineers are Technology & Software and Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed engineering teams to build, scale, and maintain cloud infrastructure without being tied to a single office location.
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