Principal Engineer, Software EngineeringAHEAD · United States

Principal Engineer, Software Engineering

🗓️ Posted 2026-10-12 United States Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market US$15,000–US$22,500/mo

About the Company

Accelerate Your Impact AHEAD accelerates strategy into execution by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. We modernize platforms and workflows, applying AI to unlock the full impact of people and technology-building what others only blueprint. Information Technology & Services Specialties: Enterprise Data Center, Digital Engineering, Data & Analytics, Next-Gen Infrastructure, Enterprise Automation, Integrated Security, Cloud Management and Operations, Managed Services, Consulting Services, DevOps, Cloud Migration, Security Automation, Network Automation, FinOps, Engineered Solutions, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Operations, Cloud Platforms, Enterprise Service Management, AI Platforms and Architecture, AI Strategy and Planning, AI Infrastructure and Hardware, Custom AI Engineering

Responsibilities

  • ● AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
  • ● At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
  • ● We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
  • ● AHEAD is looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to help shape, build, and evolve the platforms that power our business. We're a leading IT services provider, trusted by some of the world's largest companies to design, build, run, and modernize their most important technology across cloud, data, AI, and security.
  • ● You'll join an experienced engineering team that builds real products, adopts new tools early, sweats the details, and trades ideas constantly. Our current stack includes Next.js, JavaScript, Golang, dbt, Snowflake, and PostgreSQL. You'll work across application, service, data, and platform layers, with the autonomy to make a visible impact on important enterprise systems.
  • ● This is a principal-level role for someone who can move comfortably between user needs, business outcomes, system architecture, implementation, and production support. We care about the depth of your engineering judgment more than a specific list of languages. Experience with equivalent technologies such as Java, C, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Kotlin, or similar is welcome.