Leads enterprise architectural initiatives, defines long-term technology strategy, and designs scalable, resilient distributed systems. Acts as a senior technical authority across teams, guiding system design, performance, reliability, and technical decision-making. The role requires mentoring senior engineers, leading cross-organizational initiatives, shaping engineering culture, and driving strategic transformation programs, with emphasis on backend development, optimization, cost management, and enterprise-scale architecture.
Principal Applications Engineer – Remote
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: Principal Applications Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$140,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Applications Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership. The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and platforms, and combine deep technical mastery with mature judgment, broad influence, and the ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization.
Required Qualifications
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to [email protected]
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title: Principal Applications Engineer
Location: 100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range: $100,000–$140,000 Annually
Experience Required: 6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Applications Engineer to lead enterprise-wide architectural initiatives, define long-term technology strategy, and deliver highly scalable, resilient distributed systems. This role represents the highest level of individual technical contribution within the organization, requiring deep expertise in system design, performance engineering, reliability architecture, and cross-organizational technical leadership. The ideal candidate will drive strategic engineering decisions, serve as a technical authority across multiple teams and platforms, and combine deep technical mastery with mature judgment, broad influence, and the ability to mentor and elevate senior engineers across the organization.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- Ten or more years of professional software engineering experience.
- Proven expertise designing distributed, high-scale systems in production.
- Advanced proficiency in Java, Go, C++, or similar backend languages.
- Deep understanding of data modeling, system optimization, and performance tuning.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives across multiple business units.
- Strong expertise in reliability engineering and distributed architectures.
- Demonstrated leadership in architectural decision-making at enterprise scale.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and shaping engineering culture.
- Public technical contributions (papers, talks, OSS leadership).
- Experience driving multi-year transformation programs.
- Familiarity with FinOps and large-scale cost optimization.
- Exposure to regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, government).
- Advanced degree or equivalent industry recognition.
Would you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to [email protected]
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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