Top 32 Principal software Jobs in Carlsbad, Ca

Principal / Distinguished Engineer - Multi-Cloud Control Plane - Kubernetes
ServiceNow —San Diego, CA
- $254,500 - $445,400 a year
- Online Application
- Hybrid work
- 11+ years
- Office
- Residential
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
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Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $247,500 - $353,000 a year
- Computer science
- 7 years
- Computer Science
Senior Principal Platform Architect - Systems Integrators
ServiceNow —San Diego, CA
- $192,400 - $250,000 a year
- Online Application
- Remote
- 11+ years
- Residential
- Analysis skills
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Health insurance
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Principal Software Developer - Full Stack (Unity, C#)
Zynga —Carlsbad, CA
- $114,300 - $164,300 a year
- Full-time
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Bachelor of Science
- Commuter assistance
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Principal Applied AI Lead, Talent
Intuit —San Diego, CA
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- 6 years
- APIs
- Senior level
Principal Mobile Engineer
Nice North America LLC —Carlsbad, CA
- $160,000 - $180,000 a year
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer literacy
- Office
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Principal, AI Workflow Enablement Lead
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $243,000 - $328,500 a year
- Computer Science
- 11+ years
- Telemetry
Associate Principal, AI Engineering
Illumina —San Diego, CA
- $187,400 - $281,000 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
Principal Systems Architect
General Atomics —San Diego, CA
- $140,940 - $252,293 a year
- Full-time
- System design
- 11+ years
- Master's degree
Principal Technical Program Manager
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $219,500 - $322,000 a year
- Product management
- Senior level
- Leadership
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Principal Program Manager - Privacy Product & Data Innovation
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $178,000 - $263,000 a year
- Bachelor of Science
- 3 years
- Experience equivalent to degree accepted
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Principal Technical Program Manager - Technical Strategy Development
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $219,500 - $322,000 a year
- 7 years
- Senior level
- Communication skills
Principal Product Manager, AI-Native Field Services
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $243,000 - $328,500 a year
- Computer science
- Computer Science
- Inventory management
SAP Principal Enterprise Architect, S/4HANA & Digital Platforms
Illumina —San Diego, CA
- $170,600 - $255,800 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Background check
- Computer science
- Azure
- Dental insurance
- Paid time off
Principal Product Manager, Services Segmentation
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $230,000 - $328,500 a year
- Analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Product management
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Principal Product Manager - Commercial Platforms
Hunter Industries —San Marcos, CA
- $140,000 - $165,000 a year
- Hybrid work
- Marketing
- Office
- Residential
- Profit sharing
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Principal AI Quality Engineer
Leica Biosystems —Vista, CA
- $160,000 - $180,000 a year
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Master's degree
- Analysis skills
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
Principal Technical Product Manager - Agentic AI
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $230,000 - $328,500 a year
- Computer Science
- Office
- 8 years
- Relocation assistance
Principal CX Strategy Leader, AI-Powered Onboarding
Intuit —San Diego, CA
- $185,000 - $280,000 a year
- Bachelor's degree
- QuickBooks
- Experience equivalent to degree accepted
Lead / Principal Process ML Engineer
Koh Young America, Inc. —San Diego, CA
- $100,000 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Computer Science
- Data analysis skills
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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Principal / Distinguished Engineer - Multi-Cloud Control Plane - Kubernetes

ServiceNow -
San Diego, CA

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Job Details

Full-time
$254,500 - $445,400 a year

Benefits

Employee stock purchase plan
Health insurance
Flexible spending account
Family leave
401(k) matching

Qualifications

Containerization systems
Cloud identity and access management (IAM)
Go
Software coding
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Infrastructure architecture design
Production systems
Distributed systems
Cloud Native Design
Cloud automation
Distributed computing
DevOps automation
AI-driven automation
AI strategy
Technical architecture

Full Job Description

Company Description

It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could do that for everyone—freeing people from busywork so they could focus on meaningful work. Today, ServiceNow is the AI control tower for business reinvention. Our ServiceNow AI platform brings together any AI, any data, and any workflow— helping 85% of the Fortune 500® work smarter, faster, and better. We're building an AI-native culture where technology and talent are unstoppable together. And we're just getting started.

Join us to put AI to work for people.

Job Description

Position Location:
This is a Flexible (Hybrid) position. Flexible positions require 2 days per week in a ServiceNow office. We have offices in several locations, including Santa Clara, CA, San Diego, CA, and Kirkland, WA

Cloud Platform — Kubernetes, Hyperscalers & Distributed Systems

We are currently seeking a Distinguished Engineer. In this role, you will have org-wide technical authority, giving you the ability to set technical direction across multiple engineering organizations. You will own the hardest, most ambiguous problems in the platform domain.

What you get to do in this role:

You will set the technical direction for our cloud-native platform across multiple engineering teams and organizations, defining the architecture and standards for how Kubernetes, distributed systems, and hyperscaler infrastructure are built and operated at scale.
You will own the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems in the platform domain — multi-cloud topology, control-plane design, workload isolation, identity and trust fabric, and reliability at the scale of hundreds of clusters and dozens of product workloads.
You will partner with engineering fellows, principal engineers, and other senior technical leaders to drive consistent architectural decisions and the adoption of best practices across the entire platform ecosystem.
You will identify and mitigate the biggest technical risks in initiatives with C-suite visibility, and you will be the person leadership trusts to make the call on managed vs. self-managed tradeoffs, substrate portability, and multi-hyperscaler strategy.
Where you see the need, you will personally design and build the critical components — control planes, operators, infrastructure abstractions, and the systems other teams build on top of.
You will mentor staff and principal engineers and shape the next generation of the organization’s technical leadership.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

Experience leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into engineering and platform work — whether using AI-powered tooling, automating operational workflows, building agentic systems for fleet visibility and operations, or reasoning about AI’s impact on how infrastructure is built and run.
12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production, with deep expertise running Kubernetes at scale (multi-cluster, multi-region, multi-tenant).
Hands-on, authoritative experience across one or more major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including their managed Kubernetes offerings (EKS, AKS, GKE) and the networking, IAM, and capacity tradeoffs that come with each.
A proven track record of providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, influencing architecture and direction without relying on positional authority.
Deep expertise in the core building blocks of a modern platform: the operator/controller pattern, infrastructure-as-code and control planes (e.g., Crossplane), GitOps-based delivery, container networking (CNI), and service mesh.
Strong programming skills in Go and fluency across the cloud-native ecosystem.

It also helps if you have:

Experience designing identity and trust fabrics for distributed systems — workload identity, mTLS, and standards such as SPIFFE/SPIRE.
Experience with multi-tenant workload isolation and runtime security (e.g., Kata Containers, sandboxed runtimes).
Experience building and operating platforms for regulated or federal markets (FedRAMP, air-gapped or self-hosted distribution, OCI bundling).
Experience with observability at scale — metrics, tracing, and SLO-driven operations across a large fleet.
A platform-as-product mindset: treating internal engineering teams as customers and the platform as a product with a roadmap, contracts, and a delivery pipeline.

For positions in this location, we offer a base pay of $254,500 - $445,400, plus equity (when applicable), variable/incentive compensation and benefits. Sales positions generally offer a competitive On Target Earnings (OTE) incentive compensation structure. Please note that the base pay shown is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. We also offer health plans, including flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) Plan with company match, ESPP, matching donations, a flexible time away plan and family leave programs. Compensation is based on the geographic location in which the role is located and is subject to change based on work location.

Additional Information

Work Personas

We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here. To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.

Accommodations

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, or are unable to use this online application and need an alternative method to apply, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

Export Control Regulations

For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.

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