Principal Engineer: AI-Driven SaaS Platform (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Charleston (WV); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform while continuing daily coding. You will drive architectural direction across a remote, cloud-native SaaS stack, guide AI strategy and integration with OpenAI/Anthropic, and partner with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver scalable solutions.

The role requires 8+ years of SaaS experience, strong leadership, and the ability to mentor teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Experience as a Staff, Principal, Lead Engineer, or similar technical leadership role.
• Strong architectural design experience within modern cloud-native environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams and systems.
• Experience partnering with Product and business stakeholders to drive outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural direction across the platform.
• Make strategic technical decisions impacting scalability, reliability, security, and future product innovation.
• Guide platform evolution while balancing speed, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute directly to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation efforts for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and provide technical mentorship.
• Help define and implement AI strategy and AI-powered capabilities using modern LLM architectures.
• Develop proofs of concept for customer-facing AI use cases.
• Architect solutions supporting customer-managed AI, including BYOM and BYOK.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including MCP architectures, AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI infrastructure patterns.
• Operate as a Product Engineer and partner closely with Product Leadership, Engineering Leadership, Customer Success, and Sales.
• Engage with customers to understand onboarding challenges and build demonstrations and prototypes.
• Translate customer requirements into platform capabilities and support strategic initiatives.

Skills

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

AI/LLM integration

OpenAI

Anthropic platforms

MCP concepts

Agentic AI frameworks

Vector databases

API platform design

Salesforce integrations

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform while continuing daily coding. You will drive architectural direction across a remote, cloud-native SaaS stack, guide AI strategy and integration with OpenAI/Anthropic, and partner with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver scalable solutions.

The role requires 8+ years of SaaS experience, strong leadership, and the ability to mentor teams.