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.
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