Principal Software Engineer, Cloud Security Platform

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Software Engineer (Senior Engineer) for a cloud-delivered security platform

• Focus: Distributed backend services, monitoring automation, and reliability for cloud-native deployment

• Experience: 8+ years

Description

You will build and design distributed backend services that form the backbone of a next-generation, cloud-delivered security platform. The role includes integrating cloud-provider infrastructure through service APIs, automating monitoring/data collection, analyzing disruptions, and improving reliability. You will also contribute foundational ML/AI-enabled algorithms for predictive and resilient security solutions, and help take charge of new product architecture.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and design, develop, and support highly scalable software features and infrastructure

• Develop algorithms integrating targeted ML/AI concepts for cloud security operations (networking and orchestration)

• Write clean, testable, readable, scalable, and maintainable code that performs at scale for thousands of customers

• Guide testing of critical components across multiple platforms with considerations for performance, supportability, and maintainability

• Collaborate with Product Management, Development, QA, SRE, and Customer Support to deliver the roadmap and improve customer outcomes

• Contribute in a results-oriented culture focused on execution, quality, and speed

Benefits

• Restricted stock units and a bonus may be included

• Compensation range: $156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr (base salary for non-sales; base salary + commission target for sales roles)

• Employee benefits available (details provided on the benefits page in the posting)

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or PhD in Computer Science or related field with 8+ years of experience

• Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java

• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms; fundamentals of operating systems, networking, and distributed systems

• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI infrastructure

• Experience building complex, large-scale SaaS solutions using distributed databases and messaging systems

• Understanding of PKI/certificates and security principles

• Experience designing and implementing scalable REST APIs, services, and data pipelines

• Experience achieving DevOps, availability, and reliability outcomes for a large cloud product

• Experience with Test-Driven Development and CI/CD

• Familiarity with TCP/IP and HTTP plus cloud network architectures (VPCs, load balancers, firewalls)

• Understanding of microservices-based deployments

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and provide technical leadership/mentorship