Sign up to access all features of our service.
  • Job search
  • Favorites
  • Create a CV
    New
  • Salaries
  • Subscriptions

Senior Principal Engineer

$175k - $200k

Bright Vision Technologies

Senior Principal Engineer – Remote 

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. 

 
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. 


Job Title: Senior Principal Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (United States)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $175,000–$200,000 Annually
Experience: 6+ years

Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. 


Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership. The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and platforms, and combine deep technical mastery with mature judgment, broad influence, and the ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization.

Key Responsibilities
  • Define enterprise-level architectural standards, system design principles, and engineering guardrails that shape engineering work across multiple business units.
  • Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems that operate at global scale.
  • Architect multi-region, fault-tolerant, and globally distributed platforms with rigorous attention to availability, durability, and disaster recovery.
  • Drive enterprise modernization initiatives, including microservices transformation, platform consolidation, and legacy decommissioning.
  • Define API governance, data architecture, and service communication patterns adopted across the engineering organization.
  • Design systems for extreme scalability, availability, and security, including detailed capacity planning and resilience modeling.
  • Evaluate and select high-performance data storage solutions appropriate to each major workload class.
  • Lead reliability engineering and incident response improvements, raising the bar on operational excellence enterprise-wide.
  • Conduct deep architectural reviews and performance audits across multiple platforms.
  • Guide engineering teams on concurrency, scalability, observability, and optimization strategies.
  • Design observability and monitoring frameworks at enterprise scale, defining standards for metrics, logs, and traces that work consistently across many teams and many production environments.
  • Define DevOps, CI/CD, and automation strategy across engineering teams and platforms.
  • Partner with executive leadership and product management on technology roadmap decisions.
  • Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers and contribute substantively to talent growth across the organization.
  • Drive innovation and continuously evaluate emerging technologies for strategic adoption.
  • Lead the resolution of critical system-level production issues that require deep architectural insight.
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
  • Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
  • Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
  • Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures.
  • Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership).
  • Experience driving multi-year transformation programs.
  • Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization.
  • Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government).
  • Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition.
How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to View email address on click.appcast.io or contact us at View phone number on click.appcast.io . Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at  

 
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.

Vacancy posted 1 day ago
Similar jobs that could be interesting for youBased on the Senior Principal Engineer in Herndon, VA vacancy
  • $146.67k - $249.33k

     ...Job Description We are looking for an Expert Cloud Systems Engineer to lead a team of Engineers on a technology-based program supporting a key government customer. This program will deliver engineering services for network infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise... 
    Senior
    Full time
    Local area

    BAE Systems USA

    Sterling, VA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Overview JOB DESCRIPTION: The Cloud Solutions Network Engineer is part of the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) and responsible for delivering...  ...manner. Connect with all levels of the organization, senior leadership to professional staff Keeps abreast of business, operational... 
    Senior

    SnaKORPIO GROUP

    McLean, VA
    1 day ago
  •  ...TO OBTAIN A CI POLY CLEARANCE***** For Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with 5+...  ...in lieu of a degree requirement. For Senior Principal Level: Bachelor's degree with...  ...supporting data management processes, database engineering and management, deploying, maintaining,... 
    Senior

    SHLD, Inc.

    Herndon, VA
    25 days ago
  • $135k - $216k

     ...Senior Manager, Systems Engineering Job Locations US-VA-Herndon Requisition ID 2025-162386 Position Category Engineering Clearance Top Secret/SCI w/Poly Responsibilities The Senior Manager, Systems Engineering provides... 
    Senior
    Contract work
    Shift work

    Peraton

    Herndon, VA
    1 day ago
  • $167.71k - $176.88k

     ...Senior Deputy Program Manager Engineering Become part of a small, focused technical team making a difference in the world. Role and position objectives: As a Deputy Program Manager - Engineering (DPME) for Intelligence Systems you’ll be leading a group of cross-functional... 
    Senior
    Work at office
    Immediate start
    Flexible hours

    General Dynamics

    Herndon, VA
    4 days ago
  • $108.8k - $171k

     ...is known for pushing the boundaries of innovation, redefining engineering capabilities, and driving advances in various sciences through...  ...Northrop Grumman Space Systems (NGSP) is seeking an experienced Principal/Sr. Principal Systems Integrator in the Intelligence Systems... 
    Senior
    Full time
    Relocation package
    Shift work

    Northrop Grumman

    Fairfax, VA
    1 hour ago
  •  ...solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security. Job Title: Principal, Program Management Excellence- Engineering Job Code: 40715 Job Location: Anaheim CA, Herndon VA, Camden NJ, Palm Bay FL, Northampton MA or Millersville... 

    L3Harris Technologies

    Herndon, VA
    2 days ago
  •  ...Job Description Job Description Job Description: Senior Principal Cyber Systems Engineer (DevOps Engineer) The selected candidate will integrate a variety of software components in a secure container architecture working with cross functional teams to debug critical... 
    Senior

    SHLD, Inc.

    Herndon, VA
    a month ago
  •  ...Job Description Job Description We are seeking a Principal Electrical Systems Engineer to join our Herndon, VA team and lead the development of advanced electro-optical and laser-based systems supporting NASA, DoD, and commercial space missions. In this role... 
    Remote work

    TalentRemedy

    Herndon, VA
    28 days ago
  •  ...overcome the most advanced technical challenges. The team comprises engineers of multiple disciplines including vulnerability research,...  ...work that is vital to our national security, apply today! Principal Cyber Engineer Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) is seeking... 
    Relocation
    Relocation package

    Nightwing

    Sterling, VA
    3 days ago
  • $80k - $176k

     ...Job Description Job Description Seeking Professional Licensed Engineer with 5 – 15 years of experience in the water industry. Background and experience in municipal or industrial water, wastewater, reclaimed water, stormwater, detailed design, utility management,... 
    Senior
    Temporary work
    Work at office

    Hazen and Sawyer

    Fairfax, VA
    1 day ago
  •  ...Job Description Job Description Senior Principal Mission Engineer OASYS, INC., a Leading-Edge Government contractor, is seeking applicants for Senior Principal Mission Engineer to support our customer in Chantilly, VA. Summary Make a difference for national... 
    Senior
    Temporary work
    For contractors
    Flexible hours

    OASYS, INC.

    Chantilly, Loudoun County, VA
    24 days ago
  • $114k - $211k

     ...Job Description Job Description Position Title: Principal Electrical Design Engineer Requisition ID: 1766 Position Location: Sterling, VA...  ...willingness to interface directly with external customers, and senior leadership within the organization Ability to work to... 
    Full time
    Temporary work
    For contractors
    Work at office
    Local area

    Trident Systems LLC

    Sterling, VA
    19 days ago
  •  ...creation of testing tools and facilitates their integration into engineering workflows, ensuring team is equipped to identify and address...  ...security violation escalation, managing communication with senior leadership and stakeholders. Conducts compliance assessments and... 
    Senior
    Part time
    Flexible hours

    Oracle Corporation

    Reston, VA
    12 hours ago
  • $116.93k - $133.64k

     ...Senior Engineering Operations Manager STV is seeking a Senior Engineering Operations Manager to serve as a trusted operations leader and subject matter expert supporting transit and rail clients nationwide. This highly consultative role partners directly with agency... 
    Senior
    Work at office
    Flexible hours

    STV

    Fairfax, VA
    4 days ago
  •  ...Principal System Safety Engineer All Qualified candidates will be responded to in 24 hours or less. Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret Security Clearance. This effort is on-site. Employment type: Full Time w-2 or Contract... 
    Full time
    Contract work

    AVTC Group

    Sterling, VA
    3 days ago
  • $180k - $240k

    Summary Position Title: Senior Principal Mission Engineer (ERD) Position ID: TA231 Location(s): Hybrid; Chantilly, VA; Colorado Springs, CO; El Segundo, CA Application Deadline: June 30, 2026 Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI Security Clearance Job Description... 
    Senior
    Full time
    Temporary work
    For contractors
    Local area

    Trusted Space, LLC

    Chantilly, Loudoun County, VA
    9 hours ago
  • $175k - $200k

     ...Senior Principal Engineer – Remote  Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.    This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and... 
    Senior
    Full time
    H1b
    Local area
    Immediate start
    Remote work
    Visa sponsorship

    Bright Vision Technologies

    Ashburn, VA
    2 days ago
  • $170k - $200k

    Summary Position Title: Senior Principal Mission Engineer (Scenarios) Position ID: TA232 Location(s): Hybrid; Chantilly, VA;  Application Deadline: We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis Security Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI Security Clearance Job... 
    Senior
    Full time
    Temporary work
    For contractors
    Local area

    Trusted Space, LLC

    Chantilly, Loudoun County, VA
    9 hours ago
  • $102k - $120k

     ...Job Title Senior Chief Engineer Job Description Summary The purpose of this position is to provide senior-level leadership and oversight of all engineering and maintenance operations for a designated property, portfolio of buildings, or campus environment. The... 
    Senior
    Minimum wage
    Contract work
    Temporary work
    Work at office
    Local area
    Flexible hours
    Shift work
    Weekend work

    Cushman & Wakefield

    McLean, VA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Job Description Job Description Hazen and Sawyer is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for our Fairfax, VA office. Key Responsibilities: Delivering public sector water and wastewater facilities planning and design projects Support projects as a critical... 
    Senior
    Temporary work
    Work at office
    Local area
    Flexible hours

    Hazen and Sawyer

    Fairfax, VA
    19 days ago
  • $107k - $198k

     ...Position Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer Requisition ID: 1790 Position Location: Sterling, VA Position Reports To: Manager, Mechanical Engineering Supervises Others: No At Trident Systems Space Electronic Systems (SES) division, we believe in the... 
    Full time
    Temporary work
    For contractors
    Local area

    Trident Systems

    Sterling, VA
    4 days ago
  • Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC is seeking an Operations Manager to oversee program operations for the Maverick Program in Sterling, Virginia. This role includes synchronizing staffing, technical, logistics, and security activities to ensure successful execution ...
    Senior

    Nightwing Intelligence Solutions, LLC

    Sterling, VA
    2 days ago
  • $125k - $175k

     ...Job Description Job Description Ready to take the lead on impactful transportation projects? ATCS is seeking a Senior Roadway Engineer or Roadway Engineering Project Manager to join our growing Virginia transportation team. This is a hybrid position based in Hampton... 
    Senior
    Full time
    For contractors
    Local area
    Immediate start
    Flexible hours

    ATCS

    Herndon, VA
    28 days ago
  • $118.3k - $224.9k

     ...the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead...  ...product safety and reliability for our warfighters. As a Principal System Safety Engineer, you will be accountable for... 
    Contract work
    Temporary work
    Work experience placement
    For subcontractor
    Work at office
    Remote work
    Relocation
    Flexible hours

    Raytheon Technologies

    Sterling, VA
    4 days ago
  • $148.3k - $266.9k

     ...talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:Parsons Company, is seeking qualified candidates to fill a Principal Digital Signal Processing Engineer (DSP) positions at our headquarters in Herndon & Chantilly, VA. We are currently searching for full-time Digital... 
    Full time
    Part time

    Parsons

    Herndon, VA
    12 hours ago
  • $220k - $250k

     ...hatch I.T. is partnering with Babel Street to find a Principal Engineer, API & MCP Platform . Please see details below: About the Role...  ...-native, agent-driven platform. This is a hands-on, senior technical leadership role responsible for defining and delivering... 
    Work at office
    Remote work

    Hatchit Co

    Reston, VA
    3 days ago
  •  ...Principal Engineer We at Software Technology Inc. are hiring for a Principal Engineer role. This senior technical professional will be responsible for Solution Engineering/Architecture of an assigned portfolio of applications and the associated business-technology... 
    Work experience placement

    Software Technology Inc

    McLean, VA
    3 days ago
  • $200k - $269k

     ...participate in designing, developing, testing, and/or maintaining hardware, technology, and/or processes.THE IMPACT YOU WILL MAKEThe Principal Engineer (Director IC), Exchange Platform (APIs, Files, AI protocols, and others) role will offer you the flexibility to make each day... 
    Full time
    Part time
    Work at office
    Remote work

    Fannie Mae

    Reston, VA
    12 hours ago
  • $190k - $304k

     ...ResponsibilitiesPeraton is seeking an ambitious Senior Director of Capture Operations with demonstrated success in capturing operations. As a Senior Director of Capture Operations, you will lead the team responsible for delivering strategic capture capabilities to Sector... 
    Senior
    Contract work
    Part time
    For subcontractor
    Shift work

    Peraton Corporation

    Reston, VA
    12 hours ago

Do you want to receive more vacancies?

Subscribe and receive similar vacancies to Senior Principal Engineer. Be the first to apply!