Principal Software Engineer

Job Overview:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to build as well as help architect our systems and platforms, including our development practices and processes. Many fundamental choices have not yet been made, so this greenfield background is an unusual opportunity to have broad ownership and ability to define requirements and goals for across product delivery, tools, and process.

Though you likely have significant experience as a technical and perhaps people and team leader, you are totally comfortable with hands on a keyboard, and you're excited by the opportunity to write code and deliver a working product in a constrained time frame, while building the systems and practices to allow us to continue to scale and grow the engineering team.

Above all, you have a bias for action. You love getting product out the door and learning from tight feedback loops, and love the satisfaction you'll receive from knowing that your contributions are directly improving the security of data for millions of people in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prioritize, and build infrastructure and services to support end to end experiences. Deployment target is currently AWS, though we may expand to additional public clouds in the future.

• Data is our life - much of our stack is related to data import, transport, cleaning, storage, analysis, and learning. This is not however typical ETL - our bread and butter is sophisticated security analysis on user behavior, and data sets are petabyte vs terabyte scale, so multi-layer distributed systems able to drive real-time analysis and alerting are the norm.

• Work with our team to create, design and implement a world-class development lifecycle, architecture, and toolset, from initial concept through DevSecOps delivery

• Define service architecture and APIs to implement the above

• Understand and participate in tradeoff discussions, but have the courage to stand behind principles and values that you believe cannot be compromised on.

Skills Required:

• BS, Masters, or PhD in computer science or related, or equivalent experience

• 10+ years backend development

• Strong understanding of industry best practices across entire lifecycle from idea to design to development, as well as test, deployment, operations, monitoring, and incident management

• Languages and Frameworks: Many and varied, with understanding of technical and community pros, cons, and tradeoffs. Likely includes Python, Java, React, Typescript.

• Have shipped and operated high-scale commercial SaaS products, with all that entails

• Understanding of core networking, data transport and persistence systems and methods at scale, particularly noSQL

• Broad direct experience with at least one public cloud platform - AWS preferred, Azure, GCP, and modern deployment tooling (CI/CD, containers, Terraform, etc.)

• Deep understanding of performance, privacy, scalability, HA/DR, instrumentation, logging & alerting, and other requirements of industry best practice enterprise scale products and services

• Understanding of industry best practice security and privacy and data governance requirements and practices

• Familiar with secure development practices, from coding to artifact generation to deployment

• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-moving world with ambiguity and potential change as daily companions

The base annual compensation range being offered for this role depending on individual candidate level and experience is $180,000 to $220,000, and an opportunity to participate in equity ownership.