Principal Systems Engineer (Remote - U.S.)

Location: 100% Remote (U.S. - excluding Alaska & Hawaii)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $205,000 base salary + comprehensive benefits

We're partnering with a leading enterprise organization to identify a Principal Systems Engineer who will play a key role in shaping the future of enterprise workforce technology. This is a highly visible technical leadership position focused on modernizing Microsoft platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity, security, and enterprise architecture that supports more than 90,000 employees worldwide.

If you enjoy solving large-scale infrastructure challenges, influencing enterprise architecture, and mentoring senior engineers, we'd love to connect.

What You'll Do

• Lead technical strategy and architecture for enterprise workforce technology platforms.
  
• Design scalable, secure solutions across Microsoft infrastructure, Azure, identity, endpoint, and security services.
  
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams to define engineering roadmaps and deliver enterprise technology solutions.
  
• Drive architectural standards and reusable technical patterns across multiple engineering teams.
  
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that improve employee and customer experiences.
  
• Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across the organization.
  
• Champion security, operational excellence, and platform reliability in every solution.
  

What We're Looking For

• 11+ years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
  
• Deep expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, endpoint technologies, and enterprise security.
  
• Strong experience with identity and access management, including SSO, MFA, RBAC, and enterprise authentication.
  
• Experience designing distributed, highly available, cloud-based enterprise platforms.
  
• Proven success influencing technical strategy and architectural decisions across large organizations.
  
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to engineering teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
  
• Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and security best practices.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
  
• Experience building enterprise-scale Azure environments and cloud governance frameworks.
  
• Background supporting large internal technology platforms serving thousands of employees.
  

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Fully remote position with occasional travel for team meetings.
  
• Opportunity to influence technology strategy at enterprise scale.
  
• Work alongside highly collaborative engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
  
• Competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k), profit sharing, paid time off, and strong career growth opportunities.
  

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.