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Top Principal Software Engineer Jobs in NYC, NY

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Fintech • HR Tech
The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives in Payroll Services, designing and building systems to improve payroll functionality, collaborating with multiple teams, and mentoring junior engineers.
Top Skills: Ruby,Rails,Typescript,React,Ai,Machine Learning
3 Days Ago
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New York, NY
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Fintech • HR Tech
As Principal Software Engineer, you'll architect and maintain Gusto's Payroll systems, lead projects, mentor engineers, and enhance product features.
Top Skills: GraphQLRuby on RailsReactRestful ApisRubyTypescript
6 Days Ago
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New York, NY
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Fintech • HR Tech
Lead the Payments team building scalable payment systems, collaborating across functions, mentoring engineers, and enhancing product development lifecycle.
Top Skills: ReactRuby On RailsTypescript
9 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
235K-414K Annually
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235K-414K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
As a Principal Software Engineer at Snap Inc, you will design and scale engineering components, advocate for best practices, and provide technical direction across teams to support strategic initiatives.
9 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
235K-414K Annually
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235K-414K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Lead the Media Delivery Platform team to design and scale mobile media platform services, focusing on video technologies and backend solutions to enhance user experiences.
Top Skills: Distributed SystemsMobile DevelopmentVideo Technologies
9 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
235K-414K Annually
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235K-414K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
The Principal Software Engineer, iOS will develop high-performance mobile applications, implement software using Objective-C, and lead technical direction for projects. Responsibilities include feature development, technical evaluations, code reviews, and collaboration with design teams.
Top Skills: Av1AvfoundationC/C++Core MediaHevcMetalObjective-COpenglSwiftVideotoolbox
9 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
235K-414K Annually
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235K-414K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Lead the Android engineering team, develop mobile features, conduct code reviews, and design stable products to enhance user experience.
Top Skills: DaggerJavaKotlinRxjava
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New York, NY
144K-165K Annually
Mid level
144K-165K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Join Capital One as a Principal Software Engineer to design and develop cloud-based solutions, lead Agile teams, and mentor peers in technology and data management.
Top Skills: AWSDockerGCPGoHTML/CSSJavaJavaScriptKubernetesAzurePythonRustSQLTypescript

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10 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
235K-414K Annually
Senior level
235K-414K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Design and implement a media delivery platform, optimize media quality, provide technical direction, and lead engineering initiatives for Snap's core products.
Top Skills: Backend Media PlatformsDistributed SystemsMedia Processing PipelinesVideo Technologies
Senior level
Financial Services
The Senior Principal Software Engineer leads technology strategy, drives product development, and influences technical solutions across various teams, ensuring innovation and operational stability.
Top Skills: CloudJavaPython
3 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
155K-270K Annually
Expert/Leader
155K-270K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
This role involves architecting and driving CI/CD infrastructure globally, leading DevOps operations, and ensuring code quality and developer productivity across enterprise infrastructure.
Top Skills: AgileCi/CdDevOpsIacJavaKubernetesSdlc
4 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
191K-258K Annually
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191K-258K Annually
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eCommerce • Software
Lead the decomposition of monolithic applications into microservices, drive best practices in testing and observability, and enhance developer experience while mentoring engineers.
Top Skills: ArgocdAWSCeleryCircleCIDjangoDockerFastapiGithub ActionsGoKafkaKubernetesNew RelicNsqPagerdutyPythonSqsTerraform
6 Days Ago
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New York, NY
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Information Technology • Cybersecurity
The Principal Software Engineer will lead the development of server-side features in the EDR product, collaborating with various teams to enhance security solutions and improve workflows.
Top Skills: CSSJavaScriptLinuxPostgresRuby On Rails
6 Days Ago
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Remote
New York, NY
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186K-258K Annually
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186K-258K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Machine Learning • Social Impact • Software
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll define technical roadmaps, guide system architecture, mentor leaders, and identify impactful opportunities in Capital Supply operations.
Top Skills: AIMachine LearningSoftware Engineering
7 Days Ago
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Remote
New York, NY
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Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • Big Data Analytics • Automation
Lead technical vision and architecture for PagerDuty's Operations Cloud Platform, mentor engineers, oversee design excellence, and drive innovation in SaaS solutions. Collaborate with senior leadership to align engineering initiatives with business objectives.
Top Skills: APIsAWSAzureCloud-Native TechnologiesElixirGCPGoJavaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonRuby
8 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology
The Principal Software Engineer will develop and improve storage software, drive innovation, and maintain production environments while leading a team in a fast-paced cloud storage company.
Top Skills: AWSAzureC++DockerGoKubernetesLinuxZfs
9 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
190K-230K Annually
Expert/Leader
190K-230K Annually
Expert/Leader
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Food • Healthtech • Natural Language Processing • Social Impact
The Principal Software Engineer will develop and innovate scalable services for customer experiences, troubleshoot issues, and work independently on projects, while leveraging various technologies including AWS and microservices.
Top Skills: AWSGoJavaKafkaLinuxNosql DatabasesPHPPythonRelational DatabasesServerless
10 Days Ago
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New York, NY
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AdTech • Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Software • Analytics
The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical and thought innovations for product features, mentor teams, and collaborate on system infrastructure and architecture, requiring a deep expertise in software and data technologies.
Top Skills: AerospikeApache AirflowApache LuigiAWSBashCi/CdDjangoDockerDynamoDBEmrFastapiHbaseHdfsHiveJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQLOpen Table FormatsPostgresPythonRedisScalaScyllaSnowflakeSparkTerraform
Reposted 12 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
188K-301K Annually
Senior level
188K-301K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
Lead the technical direction and quality of Toast's POS payments workflows, mentor engineers, and drive improvements in architecture and codebase.
Top Skills: AndroidJavaKotlin
10 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
185K-295K Annually
Expert/Leader
185K-295K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
The Principal Software Engineer will lead AI projects, develop SaaS applications, mentor team members, and address complex challenges in cybersecurity for CrowdStrike.
Top Skills: Agentic Ai PlatformsAmazon BedrockGoGoogle Vertex AiHybrid-CloudJavaMicrosoft Copilot StudioOpen AiPythonSaaSScala
Reposted 11 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
New York, NY
144K-165K Annually
Mid level
144K-165K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
As a Principal Software Engineer at Capital One, you'll collaborate with Agile teams to develop and support full-stack technical solutions, mentor colleagues, and create cloud-based data management tools to enhance user experiences. You'll also experiment with new technologies and share insights across teams.
Reposted 12 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
249K-336K Annually
Expert/Leader
249K-336K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
Lead the development and optimization of data platforms, ensuring high availability, security, and compliance while mentoring teams and driving strategic data initiatives.
Top Skills: AWSDatabricksHadoopKafkaSpark
12 Days Ago
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New York, NY
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158K-338K Annually
Senior level
158K-338K Annually
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Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
This role involves leading the design and evolution of GitLab’s multi-tenant platform, ensuring high availability and performance while mentoring team members. Responsibilities include backend API design and fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
Top Skills: Cloud ComputingGoRuby
2 Days Ago
Hybrid
New York, NY
165K-200K Annually
Mid level
165K-200K Annually
Mid level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The role involves collaborating with agile teams, designing and implementing technical solutions, and delivering cloud-based services as a DevOps Engineer.
Top Skills: AnsibleAWSDockerGoJavaKubernetesPythonRubySQLTerraform
15 Days Ago
Remote
New York, NY
170K-210K Annually
Senior level
170K-210K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Edtech • Information Technology • Software
The Principal Software Engineer in IAM will design and maintain authentication services, optimize dev processes, and lead teams for high quality software delivery.
Top Skills: AWSC#DockerJavaScriptJIRAKubernetesOpsgeniePostgresSQLTypescript

Top NYC Companies Hiring Principal Software Engineers

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Security • Sales • Information Technology • Cybersecurity • Computer Vision • Cloud
25 Offices
10000 Employees
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Software • Social Impact • Machine Learning • Fintech • Artificial Intelligence
Fully Remote
1500 Employees
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Information Technology • Cybersecurity
Fully Remote
450 Employees
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Software • Payments • Machine Learning • Fintech • Financial Services
14 Offices
55000 Employees
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HR Tech • Fintech
4 Offices
2674 Employees
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Software • eCommerce
San Francisco, CA
133 Employees
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