Remote Principal Engineer — AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 124,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer for a remote, contract-to-hire engagement. You will drive architectural direction for a SaaS onboarding platform, write production code daily, and lead AI-enabled innovations across product and engineering teams.

You will shape strategy, tackle scalability, security, and reliability challenges, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver customer value. Remote work and W2 benefits apply.

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.
• Proven ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities.
• Core technologies: Go (Golang), React, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, cloud-native and distributed systems.
• Preferred: AI/LLM integration, OpenAI or Anthropic platforms, MCP concepts, agentic AI frameworks, vector databases and retrieval, enterprise AI security and governance, API platform design and integrations, Salesforce ecosystem integrations.
• Success profile: product-thinking mindset focused on customer outcomes, ownership of ambiguous challenges, clear communication of technical tradeoffs, influence through expertise and execution, proactive risk identification, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments.

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

API design

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer for a remote, contract-to-hire engagement. You will drive architectural direction for a SaaS onboarding platform, write production code daily, and lead AI-enabled innovations across product and engineering teams.

You will shape strategy, tackle scalability, security, and reliability challenges, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver customer value. Remote work and W2 benefits apply.