Remote Principal Engineer - AI Platform Architect

Eliassen Group; Salt Lake City (UT); Remote; USD 187,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product, engineering, and customer success teams. You will lead AI-enabled initiatives, build proofs of concept, and mentor peers while delivering scalable SaaS solutions.

Remote role with a strong emphasis on architectural leadership, coding contribution, and strategic technology direction across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production SaaS platforms.
• Experience in technical leadership roles (Staff/Principal/Lead).
• Strong architectural design in modern cloud-native environments.
• 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 balancing speed, simplicity, and maintainability.
• Identify technical risks before they become business problems.
• Write production code daily and contribute to feature development.
• Design, build, and support scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead implementation for complex customer and platform initiatives.
• Participate in design and 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 for customer-managed AI including BYOM and BYOK.

Skills

Go

React

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

AI/LLM integration

OpenAI/Anthropic platforms

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a hands-on Principal Engineer to shape the onboarding platform, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product, engineering, and customer success teams. You will lead AI-enabled initiatives, build proofs of concept, and mentor peers while delivering scalable SaaS solutions.

Remote role with a strong emphasis on architectural leadership, coding contribution, and strategic technology direction across the organization.