Principal Software Engineer
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US, Canada, UKFull-TimePrincipal
Salary220,000 - 258,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GCPGoTerraformDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems.
- Deep fluency in Go.
- Experience with GCP and Terraform.
- Ability to work with messy, unstructured data validating, deduplicating, and extracting signal.
- Experience transitioning teams from fast-moving prototypes to maintainable systems, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, and on-call.
- Experience building systems that handle multiple customer types with different entitlements, access levels, and interaction patterns.
- Comfort operating across the full backend stack.
- Prior background in security-adjacent domains (supply chain, vulnerability management, cloud security).
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for the Athena clearing house by making architectural calls on data validation pipelines, customer entitlement systems, workflow orchestration, upstream reconciliation, OSV publication, and coalition interfaces.
- Scale the team and the product area.
- Define and drive the transition from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade product stack including observability, incident handling, and operational rigor.
- Partner with staff engineers to establish domain ownership and technical standards across the team.
- Lead the design of systems that process unstructured vulnerability reports from enterprise customers, deduplicate findings, and surface clean signals.
- Identify and retire technical debt introduced during the team's high-velocity prototyping phase.
- Serve as a thought partner on build-vs-buy decisions, capacity planning, and long-term architectural bets.
- Contribute to a hiring bar that brings in engineers who can sustain serious output.
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