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300-462K Annually
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300-462K Annually
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Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
As a Principal Engineer, you will design, scale, and lead the development of Adyen's financial products while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product teams.
Top Skills: Engineering SystemsFinancial InfrastructureSoftware Engineering
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Chicago, IL
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Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
The Senior Principal Engineer will design and maintain cloud infrastructure, mentor teams, and drive technical innovations for SoFi's developer platform.
Top Skills: AnsibleAWSAzureDockerGCPKubernetesTerraform
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Chicago, IL
129K-186K Annually
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129K-186K Annually
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Fintech • Financial Services
The Principal Engineer will develop and analyze digital platforms and software applications, solve technical issues, guide projects, and design complex solutions.
Top Skills: APIsCloud TechnologiesDatabasesDevsecopsDigital PlatformsSoftware Applications
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Chicago, IL
195K-290K Annually
Senior level
195K-290K Annually
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Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
The Principal Engineer will lead the technical strategy and architectural decisions for the Endpoint Protection Product, focusing on Windows. Responsibilities include mentoring, performance optimization, and collaboration across teams while staying updated on security trends.
Top Skills: C/C++Cross-Platform DevelopmentMalware AnalysisReal-Time Security MonitoringSystems ProgrammingWindows Os Internals
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Chicago, IL
195K-290K Annually
Senior level
195K-290K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
As a Principal Engineer, you'll lead and guide technical strategies for the Policy Management team, developing cloud-based systems and mentoring engineers while ensuring project delivery and system scalability.
Top Skills: AWSC++CassandraElastic SearchGCPGoKafkaKubernetesPythonRedisTypescriptUnix Shell
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
145K-220K Annually
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145K-220K Annually
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Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
The Technology Resilience Principal will lead resilience functions, driving strategies for technical resilience across systems, ensuring service reliability, and disaster recovery.
Top Skills: Application ResilienceChaos EngineeringCloud-Native EnvironmentsEnterprise Disaster RecoveryInfrastructure RedundancyMonitoring Platforms
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Chicago, IL
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Automotive • Professional Services • Software • Consulting • Energy • Chemical • Renewable Energy
The Principal Engineer leads as a Global SME in high voltage systems, influencing standards and testing capabilities while ensuring client satisfaction through expert communication and stakeholder engagement.
Top Skills: C37C57 SeriesCircuit-BreakerHigh Voltage SystemsIec 62271 SeriesIeee C12SubstationSwitchgearUl 2748
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Chicago, IL
280K-385K Annually
Senior level
280K-385K Annually
Senior level
Automotive • Big Data • Information Technology • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
The Principal Developer Productivity Engineer will enhance GM's developer tools, mentor engineers, and drive system performance through observability and software engineering best practices.
Top Skills: C/C++DockerGoGrafanaIstioKubernetesNode.jsPrometheusPythonRustTerraform
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Chicago, IL
130K-190K Annually
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130K-190K Annually
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Fintech • Software • Financial Services
As a Principal Platform Engineer at Avant, you will design and implement cloud-native platforms and infrastructure tools, ensuring scalability and stability of customer-facing products while leading automation and security initiatives.
Top Skills: AirflowArgocdAtlantisAWSBashDatabricksDatadogDockerGoHclHelmIstioKubernetesLinkerdNginxOpentelemetryPrometheusPythonSentrySpaceliftTerraform
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Chicago, IL
140K-195K Annually
Senior level
140K-195K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Principal Software Engineer at Avant will architect and develop scalable solutions for credit card and loan servicing products, collaborating with various teams to enhance performance and customer experience while driving innovation in digital banking.
Top Skills: .NetAWSAzureCassandraDockerEvent-Driven ArchitectureGCPJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBPostgresPythonRuby
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Chicago, IL
147K-220K Annually
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147K-220K Annually
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AdTech • eCommerce • Food • Marketing Tech • Retail
The Principal Site Reliability Engineer leads design and implementation of SRE frameworks, enhances system reliability, and mentors junior engineers.
Top Skills: AksArgocdBashDatadogDockerGithub ActionsGoJavaKubernetesPythonRedisSpring BootTerraformTomcat
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Chicago, IL
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171K-367K Annually
Senior level
171K-367K Annually
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Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Principal Engineer in Production Engineering, you will lead the roadmap, design complex distributed systems, and mentor engineers, driving reliability and performance for GitLab's scalable SaaS platform.
Top Skills: GoRuby
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
129K-186K Annually
Senior level
129K-186K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
The Principal Systems Engineer leads systems engineering efforts, manages technical risks, oversees enterprise infrastructure, and ensures compliance with standards, while executing and supervising multiple projects.
Top Skills: AixAzureCisco UcsCloud-Based InfrastructureCommvaultDellDell Hyper Converged SystemsDhcpDnsEmcExchangeHp Blade Server HardwareLinuxNetappPure StoragePythonSan TechnologiesSql 2008Sql 2012Sql 2016Symantec AntivirusTcp/IpTrendmicroVmware HorizonVmware Vsphere 6.XWindows
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Chicago, IL
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214K-309K Annually
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214K-309K Annually
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Fintech • HR Tech
As Principal Software Engineer at Gusto, you'll architect scalable payroll systems, lead cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, and drive product strategy.
Top Skills: GraphQLRuby on RailsReactRestful ApisRubyTypescript
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
195K-290K Annually
Senior level
195K-290K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Lead the development of an AI framework for endpoint security, collaborate with teams, optimize solutions, and ensure model efficiency across various platforms.
Top Skills: AIC/C++GpuLinuxmacOSMlNpuOnnxOpenvinoWindows
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Chicago, IL
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158K-338K Annually
Senior level
158K-338K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll lead the architectural transformation of GitLab.com into a distributed SaaS platform, focusing on scalability and reliability, while mentoring engineers and aligning infrastructure with business goals.
Top Skills: GoIstioKafkaMetricsPostgresRubyService MeshTracing
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Hybrid
Chicago, IL
Expert/Leader
Expert/Leader
Financial Services
The Principal Security Engineer will enhance cybersecurity solutions, implement new tools, evaluate security products, and promote compliance and business agility.
Top Skills: Artificial IntelligenceCloudCybersecurity Software SolutionsMachine Learning
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Chicago, IL
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206K-284K Annually
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206K-284K Annually
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Machine Learning • Security • Software • Analytics • Defense
The Principal Mission Software Engineer leads Agile teams to develop software for national security missions, ensuring quality and integrating customer needs in secure environments.
Top Skills: DockerGitlabJavaJIRAKubernetesSonarqube
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Chicago, IL
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300K-400K Annually
Expert/Leader
300K-400K Annually
Expert/Leader
AdTech • Artificial Intelligence • Marketing Tech • Software • Analytics
The Principal AI/ML Engineer will develop machine learning models for campaign optimization in AdTech, collaborating across engineering and product teams to enhance advertising capabilities.
Top Skills: SparkAWSCassandraDockerDynamoDBGoHadoopJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPythonPyTorchRedisTensorFlow
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Chicago, IL
195K-290K Annually
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195K-290K Annually
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Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
Lead and develop Agentic AI solutions, mentor team members, collaborate on AI applications, and tackle complex challenges in cybersecurity.
Top Skills: Amazon BedrockGoGoogle Vertex AiJavaMicrosoft Copilot StudioOpen AiPythonScalaServerless Architecture
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Chicago, IL
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160K-210K Annually
Mid level
160K-210K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll design scalable cloud storage architectures, optimize performance, and collaborate with teams to enhance storage solutions for AI workloads.
Top Skills: 3Par/NimbleBashCCephfsDell EmcGoIbmJavaScriptPure StoragePythonRustTerraformTypescriptVast Data
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Chicago, IL
276K-374K Annually
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276K-374K Annually
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Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
The Principal Software Engineer will lead the vision and execution for Developer Productivity, enhancing workflows and integrating AI tools to streamline software delivery across Dropbox's multi-product stack.
Top Skills: AICi/CdDistributed SystemsLlms
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Chicago, IL
215K-265K Annually
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215K-265K Annually
Expert/Leader
Software • Defense
The Principal Software Engineer will lead cross-team initiatives, define system architecture, mentor engineers, and engage in critical implementations to enhance reliability and team effectiveness.
Top Skills: AWSCi/CdKubernetesNode.jsPostgresReactRedisTypescriptVite
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Chicago, IL
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15-15 Annually
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15-15 Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology
As a Principal Software Engineer - Storage at Wasabi, you'll design and improve storage software, addressing high reliability, security, and scalability in cloud storage services.
Top Skills: AWSAzureC++DockerGoKubernetesLinuxZfs
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Remote or Hybrid
Chicago, IL
240K-290K Annually
Senior level
240K-290K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Automotive • Machine Learning • Transportation
The Principal Engineer will lead the Behaviors team, focusing on ML model development for autonomous vehicle navigation, team management, and project execution.
Top Skills: C++CudaPythonPyTorchTensorFlow
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