Principal Software Engineer

Lucas Alvarado
Lucas Alvarado
Senior Consultant
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Posted on 5 May 2026
up to $250,000
Permanent
Remote
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Opportunity description

Job Title:
Principal Software Engineer

Role: Principal Software Engineer - Product

Job Type: Full Time, Remote

Are you passionate about making the world more secure? Have you worked on a high performing product engineering team shipping to hundreds of paying customers? If so, we want you! Come join and reinvent security operations.

What you’ll be doing

As a member of the engineering team, you will lead the evolution of our platform. Your work will be at the forefront of designing scalable, secure, and user-friendly solutions that give our customers' analysts superpowers, from beginners to SMEs.

Your work will directly impact how organizations secure and defend their digital estate.

  • Define the technical vision and roadmap for our software platform, driving strategic initiatives that deliver significant business impact

  • Serve as a technical thought leader, contributing to the strategic direction of engineering and architecture decisions

  • Design and implement features for a composite AI system w/ agents, LLMs, RAGs

  • Develop and champion innovative software solutions to solve our most complex, mission-critical business challenges

  • Establish and evangelize engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns, and AI-powered techniques to ensure the scalability and reliability of our systems

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and other business stakeholders to uncover requirements and align on key priorities

  • Keep abreast of the latest software engineering trends and technologies, and identify opportunities to incorporate relevant innovations

     

What you bring to the team

  • Extensive experience as a back-end engineer with a proven track record of delivering complex, high-impact projects

  • Deep expertise in architecting and scaling distributed systems, with fluency in Python and Golang programming languages

  • Demonstrated ability to drive strategic technical initiatives and influence engineering direction at an organizational level

  • Strong business acumen and the ability to translate technical solutions into tangible business value

  • Continuous learning mindset, staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in software engineering and AI, and proactively exploring new approaches

  • Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills, with the ability to navigate cross-functional relationships and build consensus

     

What makes you stand out from other candidates

  • Leads by example

  • Passion for delivering highly reliable systems

  • Desire to participate in transforming the practice of defensive cybersecurity

     

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience

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