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Principal Systems Engineer

PTR GlobalSt. Louis, MO🇺🇸United StatesPosted 13 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This remote Principal Systems Engineer role offers you the chance to lead technical strategy and influence enterprise architecture for a global organization supporting over 90,000 employees, with a competitive base salary of $205,000 and comprehensive benefits. You'll thrive here if you possess deep expertise in Microsoft platforms and Azure, enjoy solving large-scale infrastructure challenges, and are driven to mentor senior engineers. Apply today to shape the future of enterprise technology and advance your career.

Quick Overview

Salary
$205k/yr
Work Type
Remote
Level
Leader

Job Description

Principal Systems Engineer (Remote - U.S.)


Location: 100% Remote (U.S. - excluding Alaska & Hawaii)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: $205,000 base salary + comprehensive benefits

We're partnering with a leading enterprise organization to identify a Principal Systems Engineer who will play a key role in shaping the future of enterprise workforce technology. This is a highly visible technical leadership position focused on modernizing Microsoft platforms, cloud infrastructure, identity, security, and enterprise architecture that supports more than 90,000 employees worldwide.

If you enjoy solving large-scale infrastructure challenges, influencing enterprise architecture, and mentoring senior engineers, we'd love to connect.

What You'll Do

  • Lead technical strategy and architecture for enterprise workforce technology platforms.
  • Design scalable, secure solutions across Microsoft infrastructure, Azure, identity, endpoint, and security services.
  • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure teams to define engineering roadmaps and deliver enterprise technology solutions.
  • Drive architectural standards and reusable technical patterns across multiple engineering teams.
  • Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that improve employee and customer experiences.
  • Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across the organization.
  • Champion security, operational excellence, and platform reliability in every solution.

What We're Looking For

  • 11+ years of software and/or infrastructure engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
  • Deep expertise across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, endpoint technologies, and enterprise security.
  • Strong experience with identity and access management, including SSO, MFA, RBAC, and enterprise authentication.
  • Experience designing distributed, highly available, cloud-based enterprise platforms.
  • Proven success influencing technical strategy and architectural decisions across large organizations.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to engineering teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and security best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
  • Experience building enterprise-scale Azure environments and cloud governance frameworks.
  • Background supporting large internal technology platforms serving thousands of employees.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

  • Fully remote position with occasional travel for team meetings.
  • Opportunity to influence technology strategy at enterprise scale.
  • Work alongside highly collaborative engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
  • Competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k), profit sharing, paid time off, and strong career growth opportunities.

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Skills

MFA
SSO
Active Directory
Azure

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