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Principal Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

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Campbell, 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.

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Brookdale, 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.

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Foster City, CA6 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    .

San Francisco, CA7 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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Holy City, 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

We 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.

San Francisco, CA7 days ago

$225,000–$275,000 Per Year

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Foster City, CA12 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.

Belmont, CA7 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 Francisco, CA2 days ago

We prioritize ownership, data-driven decisions, and cross-team partnerships with audio ML, backend, and mobile groups to deliver polished, user-centric solutions. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation.

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Sunnyvale, CA2 days ago

4+ years of experience working on products that require tight hardware-software co-development, including platform software integration, performance tuning, and cross-functional collaboration among hardware, software, and firmware teams. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation.

Palo Alto, CA11 days ago

$60–$70 Per Hour
Contractor

We evaluate where AI can make a real difference, build the platforms and patterns that make adoption easy, and help engineering teams across the organization work smarter and faster. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role where you write production code, design systems, lead code reviews, and make the engineering organization more effective.

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San Mateo, CA6 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.

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Santa Clara, CA6 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.

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San Mateo, CA3 days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

As a Principal Software Engineer, Audio-Video-Communication team, you'll be in charge of building our upcoming platform to bring multi-modal communication experience - voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast, to our users. 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, CA25 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, CA20 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, CA18 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, CA27 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.

San Mateo, CA26 days ago

$295,250–$345,040 Per Year

Bonus] Advanced Cache Internals: Experience extending cache functionality (e.g., writing custom Redis modules in C/Rust, complex Lua scripting) or deep-tuning underlying memory allocators like jemalloc. 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.

Sunnyvale, CA14 days ago

Full-time
Employee

As a Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud, you will create and reinforce the human pathways between Google Engineering and our most strategic customers and partners, allowing all of us to start from loosely defined, potentially transformative market opportunities and convert them into new, technology-enabled businesses. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

San Mateo, CA18 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 Jose, California24 days ago

San Mateo, CA13 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 Jose, CA13 days ago

$120,000–$180,000 Per Year

We are seeking a Principal Application Engineer to drive deployment and integration of our ultra-low-power edge inference SoC within the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB), including collaborations with Army, Navy, and Air Force research laboratories, broader DoW organizations, and federally funded research and development centers. As a senior technical leader, you will work directly with customers to architect solutions, drive system integration, resolve complex cross-layer issues, and accelerate transition from evaluation to mission deployment.

Santa Clara, California18 days ago

As a Principal CAD PCB Physical Design Engineer in the Network Technology Solutions Group, NTSG, you will be responsible for the PCB physical design and the technology development for AMD NTSG products in this expanding and strategic market for AMD. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world’s most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives.

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

$168,000–$270,000 Per Year

Requirements include 8+ years in distributed systems, proficiency in C/C++, Golang, or Rust, API design, asynchronous programming, data persistence, and security protocols. Preferred skills include hyperscale cloud experience, networking protocols, Infiniband, host management, and Kubernetes.

San Jose, CA24 days ago

$155,800–$224,200

As a Principal Network Engineer - should have a high level of expertise in many of the following areas: network routing (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), Multicast, Anycast, VLANs, MPLS, Data Center Spine-and-Leaf Architectures, QoS, VoIP, Wifi, 802.1x, Wan Optimization, SNMP, IPSec, VPN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and virtualization technologies (SDN, SD-WAN, NFV, VXLAN, EVPN). 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.

San Jose, CA24 days ago

$155,800–$224,200

Technical Proficiency: Strong knowledge of security frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) and proficiency in security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, SIEM, SOAR, XDR, Email Security, DLP, CASB, CNAPP, Vulnerability Scanning, Threat Intelligence and automated Penetration Testing. 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.

San Jose, CA24 days ago

$155,800–$224,200

Sunnyvale, CA12 days ago

Full-time
Employee

As the Cloud Networking AI Principal Engineer for Network Security, you will provide strategic direction to Google’s Networking Security portfolio, including the development of next-generation security offerings by leveraging AI and autonomous AI agents. Collaborate with senior leaders to ensure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) continues to be the most secure cloud for enterprise applications as they broadly adopt agentic workflows.

Campbell, CA12 days ago

Full-time

Serve as the subject matter expert when establishing and implementing project plans for product development including preclinical testing, bench testing, model development needs, in-vitro test methods and plans and in-vivo animal studies. As an expert level professional, the Principal Clinical Engineer will offer subject matter expertise to drive the development and improvement of Telos’ technology to elevate our products clinical application through intuitive design and meaningful improvements for physicians when using our products.

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Los Gatos, CA, CA5 days ago

Full-time

About the Role As a Principal Hardware Engineer, Signal Processing, you will lead the design, analysis, and validation of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and hardware architectures used in our next generation coherent and optical DSP‑enabled products. You will collaborate effectively with hardware, FPGA/ASIC, firmware, optical systems, and software engineering teams to deliver high‑performance, production‑ready DSP solutions.

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San Jose, CA1 day ago

$170,000–$210,000 Per Year

Seeking an experienced Principal Engineer, Technical Program Manager to lead complex engineering programs in silicon-photonics and laser light source platforms. Identify and mitigate program risks, issues, and dependencies, providing regular status updates to leadership.

San Francisco, California30+ days ago

$240,000–$270,000 Per Year

Their proprietary pricing engine powers real-time valuations, lending decisions, and risk assessments for high-value collectibles, used daily by investors and collectors across North America. Backed by top venture firms and well-known names in fintech and sports, this company is redefining liquidity in a $5B market and expanding rapidly into new asset classes.

San Francisco, CA11 days ago

$200,000–$300,000 Per Year

Engineers in this role will help build the next generation of AI driven communication systems, solve problems that require millisecond performance, and shape the future of a company that is growing quickly. A fast growing AI platform supporting more than one thousand physical locations and tens of millions of calls every year is expanding its engineering team.

San Jose, California18 days ago

San Jose, CA20 days ago

$150,000–$200,000 Per Year

The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program. VES also designs and builds NVMe flash based server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications.

Sunnyvale, CA11 days ago

Full-time
Employee

This highly impactful role requires an exceptional blend of deep technical expertise in platform engineering, distributed systems, and AI, coupled with the ability to influence and drive adoption across multiple, globally distributed engineering teams. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA.Minimum qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

San Mateo, CA19 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.

Sunnyvale, CA11 days ago

Full-time
Employee

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San Jose, CA4 days ago

$176,300–$253,700

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.

Newark, CA10 days ago

$150,000–$170,000 Per Year

Led by a management team with significant experience in cell therapy, Allogene is developing a pipeline of “off-the-shelf” CAR T cell product candidates with the goal of delivering readily available cell therapy on-demand, more reliably, and at greater scale to more patients. Allogene Therapeutics, with headquarters in South San Francisco, is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T cell (AlloCAR T) products for cancer and autoimmune disease.

Campbell, CA16 days ago

Full-time

Lead cross-functional team members to design, characterize, optimize, document, and control all manufacturing processes by defining and measuring critical process parameters (CPP) that impact critical quality attributes (CQA) of the product, while teaching analytical techniques and applying engineering principles to understand the impact and interaction of materials and processes on process and product outputs. Exceptional critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills – able to intuitively identify problems, logically and empirically associate cause and effect, and under a variety of perspectives and constraints, prioritise and provide creative, effective, practical and strategical solutions.

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San Francisco, CA1 day ago

$160,000–$200,000 Per Year

As a key team member, you'll work on both front-end and back-end systems, utilizing technologies like Vue.js, React, Node.js, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure). Your role involves designing new features, optimizing existing systems, participating in architectural discussions, and mentoring team members.

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

Desirable skills include four (4) years of experience with front-end frameworks (React, AngularJS, Node.js), enterprise service buses (IBM IIB, MuleSoft), deployment using IBM WebSphere or similar, and two (2) years with monitoring tools (Splunk), cloud tech, microservices, containerization, and DevOps practices. Additionally, candidates should have at least three (3) years of experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, DB2, Postgres), web applications, cloud services, GitHub, Jenkins, and software methodologies like Agile or Scrum.

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Palo Alto, CA1 day ago

Requirements include a degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or related fields with 2+ years (Master's) or 4+ years (Bachelor's) of experience, proficiency in C++, Python, Linux, and experience with embedded systems and test frameworks. The role involves designing embedded runtime test solutions, developing hardware-in-the-loop qualification tests, enhancing in-house test frameworks, and supporting CI pipelines.

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Santa Clara, CA1 day ago

Candidates should have a strong background in computer/electrical engineering (BS required, MS preferred) with at least 5 years of experience in complex SoC/silicon development for server, storage, or networking applications. Seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA, for a full-time role supporting x86 low-level programming, device drivers, BIOS, and embedded microcontrollers.

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San Jose, CA1 day ago

Qualifications include experience designing and executing automated tests with frameworks, troubleshooting test failures, documenting manual tests, and defining release criteria. Proficient in writing automated tests using Typescript/Playwright, contributing to testing framework development, optimizing testing processes, and supporting continuous delivery.

San Jose, CA13 days ago

$75–$84.50 Per Hour

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and own automation that scales our support experience - turning Slack/office-hours requests into high-quality, actionable tickets and faster resolutions. Experience (or strong practical interest) in agentic tools/frameworks (LangGraph, Langchain, orchestration, RAG patterns, evaluation/guardrails) and ability to apply them pragmatically.

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