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Principal Software Engineer Jobs in San Mateo, CA

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Foster City, CA2 days ago

$123,000–$190,900 Per Year

Basic Qualifications • 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience Preferred Qualifications • 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Develop software applications and programs leveraging micro services architecture using Java, Sprint boot, Kafka, relational databases including MySQL and NoSQL databases like OpenSearch    .

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San Francisco, CA3 days ago

Remote

$170,000–$270,000 Per Year

The ideal candidate will be mid-level backend .Net Software Engineer with recent experience within a small, fast-paced, API-focused AI infrastructure startup company with lean, highly collaborative engineering teams, where they have operated with significant ownership, autonomy, and a strong “go-getter” mentality. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobot's Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal.

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San Francisco, CA3 days ago

$225,000–$275,000 Per Year

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San Carlos, CA13 days ago

Build and maintain automations for customer contracts, including BAA, DPA, and DocuSign workflows. Design and implement internal tools and workflows that automate key business processes across the company.

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SAN JOSE, CAToday

3+ years of expert level hands-on experience in fault tolerant, highly scalable cloud architectures including service-oriented architectures, cloud-native (FAAS, PAAS), and cloud storage services with at least one hyper scaler (Azure, AWS, GCP) . As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Foster City, CA8 days ago

$169,100–$270,800 Per Year

You will work on innovative solutions that combine deep technical expertise with AI/ML capabilities to enhance developer productivity, improve customer experiences, and drive next-generation commercial payment and money movement technology for B2B, B2C, P2P, and G2C flows. Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Belmont, CA3 days ago

Full-time

As a Senior Platform Software Engineer, you will be integral to developing scalable backend services that power 3D positioning and IoT solutions. This role involves leading design and development within AWS, championing best practices, and working within a fast-paced Agile team.

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SAN JOSE, CAToday

$160,000–$215,000 Per Year

3+ years of experience in building and operating cloud-native, fault-tolerant, highly scalable architectures, including service-oriented architectures, cloud-native services (FAAS, PAAS), with at least one hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, GCP). The team is applying large language models, agentic frameworks, and multi-cloud engineering to help Fortune 500 companies automate complex workflows across enterprise on-premises and cloud deployments.

Berkeley, CA10 days ago

Full-time
Employee

Responsibilities include improving system reliability, performance, and observability; integrating new markets, assets, and external data sources; leading complex cross-functional technical projects; and mentoring engineers by establishing and sharing engineering best practices. Involves building real-time, distributed systems that execute trades across multiple global markets, asset classes, and developing scalable pipelines for historical and real-time data processing.

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SAN JOSE, CAToday

$285,000–$355,000 Per Year

Someone in this role will get the opportunity to work on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across all three major cloud services – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as NetApp storage is first party integrated into all these three cloud providers. This is a technical leadership role which will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures.

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SAN JOSE, CAToday

$290,000–$350,000 Per Year

Job SummaryWe are looking for a Distinguished Engineer who will have the opportunity to work on building and scaling architecture and experience across multiple cloud environments, leveraging open-source technologies and delivering platform-as-a-service solutions that power mission-critical workloads. This is a technical leadership role that requires close collaboration with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures.

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San Francisco, California2 days ago

$75–$85 Per Hour
Contractor

Review and analyze complex multi-faceted, larger scale or longer-term Software Engineering challenges that require in-depth evaluation of multiple factors including intangibles or unprecedented factors. The specific compensation for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

San Francisco, CA11 days ago

$320,000–$485,000 Per Year
Full-time
Employee

Identify and dive deep on the gaps that make inference behave differently across first-party and CSPs — config drift, observability, deployment patterns, hard cross-platform bugs — and fix them at the source rather than building platform-specific workarounds. This is high-leverage infrastructure work: validation has to be fast and cheap enough to run on the same accelerators that serve customers, trustworthy enough to replace manual checks, and consistent enough that a change working on Anthropic first-party means it works everywhere.

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Mountain View, CA2 days ago

$163,000–$296,400 Per Year

Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This is a role emphasizing true end‑to‑end responsibility: setting the architectural vision, shaping the platform for AI‑forward discovery experiences, and steering the evolution of product experiences that sit at the heart of how users engage with the intersection of knowledge, content, and personalization on surfaces on which Copilot shows up.

New!

San Francisco, CA1 day ago

$119,800–$234,700 Per Year

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year. CoreAI – Platform and Tools is Microsoft’s AI‑first engineering organization, created to build the end‑to‑end Copilot & AI stack powering products like GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$278,530–$345,040 Per Year

EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without requiring deep database expertise. The Data Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens of millions of QPS across thousands of services.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$232,750–$325,000 Per Year

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the (insert LOB or sub LOB), you provide deep engineering expertise and work across agile teams to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Leverage your deep expertise to consistently challenge the status quo, innovate for business impact, lead the strategic development behind new and existing products and technology portfolios, and remain at the forefront of industry trends, best practices, and technological advances.

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Mountain View, CA1 day ago

$139,900–$274,800 Per Year

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$209,090–$303,335 Per Year

As a multiplier, this position builds technical communities, mentors other engineers, shapes multi-year roadmaps, and represents CARIAD in external technical forums and strategic partner engagements to accelerate innovation and platform maturity. The Technical Lead Sr Principal Software Engineer, BSW is a senior technical leader and enterprise-wide authority for base software on high-performance automotive computing platforms across CARIAD and the Volkswagen Group.

New!

Mountain View, CA2 days ago

$139,900–$274,800 Per Year

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Join our team within  CoreAI, where we are building the AI data-plane that powers all LLM inferencing workloads across Microsoft and Azure customers—from cutting-edge startups to Fortune 500 enterprises.

New!

Mountain View, CA1 day ago

$139,900–$274,800 Per Year

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year. Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, or PythonOR equivalent experience.

New!

San Mateo, CA2 days ago

$293,800–$343,340 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. The ideal candidate is someone with extensive experience in backend distributed systems, capable of working independently, advising on multiple projects in parallel and defining technical direction for the team.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$293,800–$343,340 Per Year

Our team sits at the core of all advertising systems at Roblox, serving billions of ads to millions of daily users, while powering high-scale, high-throughput data systems that shape ads personalization, ranking, and measurement. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

New!

Mountain View, CA1 day ago

$163,000–$296,400 Per Year

At this level, impact comes from building repeatable systems and raising the engineering bar: better experiment quality, better telemetry, safer rollouts, and clearer business outcomes — delivered through pragmatic execution and deep technical judgment. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$293,800–$343,340 Per Year

Full-Stack & Distributed Systems Mastery: Proven ability to design and scale high-availability backend systems using technologies like Go or C# and data processing tools (Spark, Flink), combined with a strong grasp of modern frontend architectures (React, TypeScript) to build responsive, data-heavy user interfaces. Enable Creator Success: Architect the systems facilitating seamless onboarding and management of monetization integrations (Rewarded Ads, Commerce, Immersive Ads), provide comprehensive reporting dashboards for payouts and insight metrics, and build solutions allowing creators to promote their games using ads.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$155,800–$224,200

Our cutting-edge solutions enable unparalleled “time-to-power” capabilities, reliability, and sustainability, ensuring our customers remain ahead in a world where soaring energy demand and intensifying energy scarcity are rapidly becoming the new norm. For over two decades, we’ve been at the forefront of the global energy transition, pioneering solutions that empower critical industries to thrive in a rapidly digitizing, energy-intensive world.

San Jose, CA30+ days ago

$155,800–$224,200

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

As a Principal Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and Community Banking, Core Engineering Solutions, you provide expertise and engineering excellence as an integral part of an agile team to enhance, build frameworks, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. Proven track record of technical thought leadership, including identifying and addressing technical and process gaps, and elevating team capabilities using excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

San Francisco, CA30+ days ago

$122,535–$208,715 Per Year

The Principal Software Engineer designs, develops, updates/maintains solutions and provides technical guidance to other team members across T&I.At this level the main challenge is to identify causes and implement solutions to complex & critical business problems in a multifunctional project, assessing and communicating issues of technology impact on the business. In addition, you will provide expertise and guidance in the daily activities of individual contributors or working teams to design, code, debug, test, document, implement and maintain complex business and client-facing applications using City National Bank's Secure Software Development Lifecycle.

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Santa Clara, CA2 days ago

Halo’s laser-based technology eliminates this waste from the silicon carbide (SiC) substrate manufacturing process, delivering improvements in both material cost and performance, while enabling accelerated growth for a diverse set of high-growth application markets, including the electric vehicle, grid infrastructure, industrial HVAC and other high-voltage power electronics sectors. Collaborate cross-functionally with mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering teams to drive end-to-end system integration, influencing design decisions and resolving complex technical challenges.

Mountain View, CA30+ days ago

$194,670–$282,735 Per Year

Hands-On Technical Expertise: Make significant coding contributions to develop and optimize Bluetooth/BLE/Wi-Fi sub-systems and components, utilizing deep knowledge of embedded platforms to enhance functionality and performance. Collaborating closely with various stakeholders within the VW Group's technical teams, this role will be instrumental in shaping the future of automotive connectivity, ensuring seamless integration and unparalleled user experiences across our vehicle portfolio.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$345,040–$399,420 Per Year

We run the mission critical cloud services, Data Stores, Memory Stores, and Badges, which are crucial for storing game state such as inventory and scores, implementing leaderboards, server lists, and trading, and tracking player progress and achievements. Finally, our team owns the Roblox Extended Services platform, which provides the capability for large experiences to purchase additional resources for existing services like Data Stores and new services built around compute and generative AI.

Sunnyvale, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

We create intelligent spaces and digital workspaces, delivering campus, branch, mobility, and IoT solutions that combine compute, context, control, analytics, automation, and secure connectivity to help global customers modernize their networks. Please note that Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), its direct and indirect subsidiaries and affiliated companies, and its authorized recruitment agencies/vendors will never charge any candidate a registration fee, hiring fee, or any other fee in connection with its recruitment and hiring process.

New!

San Jose, California6 days ago

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

Contribute to the design and development of AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations using frameworks built on top of Google ADK, Anthropic SDKs, etc. and related tooling to enable intelligent, scalable platform automation. Demonstrated proficiency with AI-assisted coding workflows, including experience with LLM-powered development tools, spec-driven development methodologies, and prompt engineering for software engineering use cases.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. Work closely with other teams in Compute and across the company to develop new features, support for new workloads, and define the right cross-system APIs as we expand the footprint of ‘cells’.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

This team owns provisioning, and MAPI, the global Machine API that turns raw capacity into production-ready infrastructure in minutes, across hundreds of thousands of machines on-prem and cloud environments, including new GPU and new AI infrastructure. You will shape the technical direction for this critical compute platform and unify diverse hardware and environment-specific workflows behind MAPI and drive large-scale maintenance operations like firmware updates and hardware tuning.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$354,040 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

San Mateo, CA30+ days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Connections team, your work will power the Roblox ecosystem, helping people recognize and connect with friends & interests on Roblox, express themselves, and discover & engage with the best of Roblox through their connections. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

San Mateo, CA28 days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony, etc.) to extract intricate details regarding hangs, crashes, and session health that enables all teams to safely ship changes to Roblox clients on all our supported platforms. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

San Mateo, CA21 days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. Operate as a high-agency problem solver: whether the solution requires deep-diving into backend services, scaling ML pipelines, or diving into data, you do what’s needed to ship impactful safety products.

San Mateo, CA16 days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

San Mateo, CA14 days ago

$345,040–$399,420 Per Year

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

San Mateo, CA23 days ago

$293,800–$343,340 Per Year

Evolve our video ingest, transcoding, processing, and streaming platform to serve the growing community of creators, working on our backend microservices platform, data pipelines, and the game engine. Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

Santa Clara, CA30+ days ago

Full-time

The Principal R&D Software Engineer will lead technical development of innovative electronic systems to treat peripheral and heart valve diseases, will participate on multiple cross-functional development teams that manage projects from concept through commercialization, and will perform and support a variety of development and engineering activities with primary focus on analog high-voltage circuit design and development. San Francisco, California, United States of America, San Jose, California, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America, South San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Palo Alto, CA30+ days ago

$204,250–$285,000 Per Year

As a Principal Software Engineer (Cloud Platforms) at JPMorgan Chase within the Cloud Platforms division, you will be responsible for providing technical direction and collaborating with an agile team to improve, develop, and deliver tools and platform products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

Oakland, CA30+ days ago

Prototype and build AI workflows and agents powered by LLMs (Large Language Models) to transform how doctors interact with knowledge, surface insights, and discover content. You'll be both architect and builder, working directly with the CTO and engineering leaders across our US and Croatia teams to bring ambitious ideas from prototype to production.

Santa Clara, California30+ days ago

Design and deliver reference architectures for LLM training and inference on AMD GPUs, from single‑node to multi‑datacenter deployments using Kubernetes and SLURM. You bring hands‑on experience with Kubernetes‑native distributed training, including scheduling, topology‑aware GPU placement, and operating resilient, high‑performance AI workloads at scale.

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Principal Software Engineer Jobs in San Mateo, CA

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