Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs
Remote principal software engineer jobs are open across the U.S. in software, fintech, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise technology, at remote-first companies and distributed teams scaling their engineering organizations. Employers hiring remotely right now include Shutterfly, GliaCell Technologies, and NVIDIA. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About Mirantis
Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. https://www.mirantis.com/
Job Description
Role Overview
Design and build the software that provisions, integrates, and operates high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI platforms. You will own a Storage as a Service component of the platform end-to-end, working with the Product Management, other development teams, and partner engineers to deliver against a dynamic set of requirements. You will develop the control-plane services, drivers, and tooling that connect enterprise and scale-out storage systems to Kubernetes-based workloads across hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on the Mirantis K0rdent stack.
About the Role
We are looking for a principal-level software engineer who thinks in systems and data paths — someone who can reason about throughput, latency, consistency, and failure across a storage stack, then express that understanding as clean, testable Go. The right candidate has built production software against real storage systems (whether enterprise NAS, scale-out, or object), understands what makes storage fast and reliable at scale, and has a track record of leading an engineering team, exerting influence across the whole organization.
Responsibilities
1. Storage Software & Integration
Design and build control-plane services, drivers (e.g., CSI), and tooling that provision, configure, and operate storage for Kubernetes-based AI/compute workloads.
Integrate high-performance storage platforms — Dell PowerScale, VAST, and comparable systems — into automated, declarative provisioning workflows.
Build data-path, telemetry, and observability tooling to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues.
2. Software & Automation
Write production-quality software — primarily in Go — with strong testing, code review, and operational rigor.
Deliver infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps-driven pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux) for storage configuration and lifecycle.
Support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning where storage intersects host and cluster bring-up.
3. Platform & Hybrid Delivery
Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies.
Architect storage software for fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
7+ years of software development, including production systems, with Go as a primary language.
5+ years building or integrating storage systems (distributed, scale-out, NAS, or object) at scale.
Solid understanding of storage fundamentals: file/block/object models, throughput and latency behavior, caching, consistency, and failure modes.
Experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes), and Kubernetes controllers and operators patterns.
Strong written and verbal communication with technical audiences, non-technical stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Preferred
Hands-on experience with high-performance storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale, VAST, or comparable technologies.
Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE) and Cluster API.
Experience developing storage for GPU/AI workloads (high-throughput data pipelines, GPUDirect Storage).
Additional Information
Why you’ll love Mirantis
Build the foundation platform for the AI cloud era, working directly with leading GPU cloud operators, NeoClouds, sovereign clouds, and AI-first enterprises
Collaborate with a world-class, distributed team committed to openness and technical excellence
Shape the product narrative and influence go-to-market success
It is understood that Mirantis, Inc. may use automated decision-making technology (ADMT) for specific employment-related decisions. Opting out of ADMT use is requested for decisions about evaluation and review connected with the specific employment decision for the position applied for. You also have the right to appeal any decisions made by ADMT by sending your request to isamoylova@mirantis.com
By submitting your resume, you consent to the processing and storage of your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, for the purposes of considering your application for current and future job opportunities.
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About Mirantis
Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. https://www.mirantis.com/
Job Description
Role Overview
Design and build the software that provisions, integrates, and operates high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI platforms. You will own a Storage as a Service component of the platform end-to-end, working with the Product Management, other development teams, and partner engineers to deliver against a dynamic set of requirements. You will develop the control-plane services, drivers, and tooling that connect enterprise and scale-out storage systems to Kubernetes-based workloads across hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on the Mirantis K0rdent stack.
About the Role
We are looking for a principal-level software engineer who thinks in systems and data paths — someone who can reason about throughput, latency, consistency, and failure across a storage stack, then express that understanding as clean, testable Go. The right candidate has built production software against real storage systems (whether enterprise NAS, scale-out, or object), understands what makes storage fast and reliable at scale, and has a track record of leading an engineering team, exerting influence across the whole organization.
Responsibilities
1. Storage Software & Integration
Design and build control-plane services, drivers (e.g., CSI), and tooling that provision, configure, and operate storage for Kubernetes-based AI/compute workloads.
Integrate high-performance storage platforms — Dell PowerScale, VAST, and comparable systems — into automated, declarative provisioning workflows.
Build data-path, telemetry, and observability tooling to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues.
2. Software & Automation
Write production-quality software — primarily in Go — with strong testing, code review, and operational rigor.
Deliver infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps-driven pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux) for storage configuration and lifecycle.
Support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning where storage intersects host and cluster bring-up.
3. Platform & Hybrid Delivery
Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies.
Architect storage software for fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
7+ years of software development, including production systems, with Go as a primary language.
5+ years building or integrating storage systems (distributed, scale-out, NAS, or object) at scale.
Solid understanding of storage fundamentals: file/block/object models, throughput and latency behavior, caching, consistency, and failure modes.
Experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes), and Kubernetes controllers and operators patterns.
Strong written and verbal communication with technical audiences, non-technical stakeholders, and executive leadership.
Preferred
Hands-on experience with high-performance storage platforms such as Dell PowerScale, VAST, or comparable technologies.
Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE) and Cluster API.
Experience developing storage for GPU/AI workloads (high-throughput data pipelines, GPUDirect Storage).
Additional Information
Why you’ll love Mirantis
Build the foundation platform for the AI cloud era, working directly with leading GPU cloud operators, NeoClouds, sovereign clouds, and AI-first enterprises
Collaborate with a world-class, distributed team committed to openness and technical excellence
Shape the product narrative and influence go-to-market success
It is understood that Mirantis, Inc. may use automated decision-making technology (ADMT) for specific employment-related decisions. Opting out of ADMT use is requested for decisions about evaluation and review connected with the specific employment decision for the position applied for. You also have the right to appeal any decisions made by ADMT by sending your request to isamoylova@mirantis.com
By submitting your resume, you consent to the processing and storage of your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, for the purposes of considering your application for current and future job opportunities.
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Who's Hiring
- Shutterfly14
- GliaCell Technologies11
- NVIDIA6
- Atlassian6
- Docker5
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software15
- Agriculture & Farming3
- Electronics & Hardware3
- Insurance2
- Banking & Financial Services2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote principal software engineer jobs.
- 8 or more years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership
- Deep expertise in distributed systems design, scalability, and reliability engineering
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, Python, Go, or C++ at production scale
- Experience driving cross-team technical strategy and defining engineering standards
- Strong communication skills for aligning engineering work with business objectives
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Principal Software Engineer Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote principal software engineer openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your stack and seniority and apply directly. Remote roles at well-known distributed companies close fast, so applying early matters.
Surface your async communication in writing
Remote hiring teams evaluate your written communication before they meet you. Include links to design docs, architecture decision records, or internal wikis you have authored so hiring managers can assess how you think and lead without being in the room.
Target remote-first engineering organizations
Remote-first companies, where distributed work is the default rather than an exception, hire principal software engineers differently. Their job postings emphasize ownership, cross-functional influence, and asynchronous leadership, so align your materials to those specific expectations rather than office-centric role descriptions.
Prepare your system design narrative for remote interviews
Remote principal software engineer interviews rely heavily on virtual whiteboarding and extended async design exercises. Practice explaining architectural tradeoffs clearly in writing and over video, since you won't have the benefit of sketching on a shared physical board.
Remote Principal Software Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote principal software engineer job?
Remote principal software engineers are hired by remote-first software companies, distributed fintech and cloud infrastructure teams, and enterprise technology organizations that operate without a central engineering hub. Remote employers screen for strong async written communication, the ability to drive technical direction without in-person oversight, and deep fluency in system design and architecture. Candidates who document their technical decision-making publicly, whether through design docs, open-source contributions, or engineering blog posts, stand out because remote hiring managers evaluate judgment before the first conversation.
Which companies hire remote principal software engineers?
Companies hiring remote principal software engineers right now include Shutterfly, GliaCell Technologies, and NVIDIA, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be remote-first software firms, distributed fintech and cloud platform teams, and technology-forward enterprises across sectors that have built their engineering organizations around asynchronous, location-independent work.
Can you get a remote principal software engineer job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry paths into principal-level engineering are narrow because remote teams expect early self-direction and minimal hand-holding. Remote-first startups and early-stage distributed companies are the most accessible entry points, since they often prioritize demonstrated technical output over years of tenure. Strong open-source contributions, a public portfolio of system design work, or a history of shipping production software independently can substitute for formal experience and open doors to remote junior or mid-level roles that build toward the principal level.
Do you need a degree for remote principal software engineer jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring at the principal level weigh demonstrated systems-level thinking, engineering leadership, and a record of shipping production software far more heavily than academic credentials. What matters in a remote context specifically is evidence that you can operate independently, communicate technical decisions clearly in writing, and influence architecture without real-time supervision, all of which show up in your work history and public technical output rather than a diploma.
Which industries hire the most remote principal software engineers?
The sectors hiring the most remote principal software engineers are Technology & Software, Agriculture & Farming, and Electronics & Hardware, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries concentrate remote principal software engineer hiring because their engineering organizations are structured around distributed teams that depend on senior technical leadership to drive architecture and standards across time zones without a central office.
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