Principal Backend Software Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Member of Technical Staff to join our engineering organization as a cross-cutting technical leader. This is a pure individual contributor role with significant architectural influence. You will work across teams to tackle our hardest backend scaling, reliability, and security product challenges. As a Principal MTS, you will set technical direction, drive architecture evolution, and raise the bar for engineering quality across the organization.

Responsibilities

Architect and evolve the core backend platform, including microservices, async processing pipelines, and data infrastructure; Drive technical strategy and make high-impact design decisions that affect the entire product and engineering organization; Design and build high-performance, reliable SaaS services that process security data at scale with low latency and high throughput; Lead cross-team technical initiatives, collaborating with and through other senior engineers to ship complex features; Mentor and elevate senior engineers through architecture reviews, design discussions, and hands-on pairing; Partner with product leadership to shape the technical roadmap, balancing customer needs with long-term platform health; Identify and resolve systemic performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and technical debt across the stack; Contribute directly to code in Go, working within Kubernetes-based infrastructure backed by MongoDB and Postgres

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend focus; Designed and built distributed systems, microservices architectures, and async workload processing at scale; Security product expertise, having built or architected application security products before; Strong product sense; Proficiency in Go with production experience in Kubernetes, MongoDB, and/or PostgreSQL; Technical leadership at scale; Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

Familiarity with React on the frontend; Deep familiarity with AppSec, DevSecOps, or software supply chain security; Experience as a founding engineer or early-stage startup employee; Track record of building and scaling developer-facing products or platforms; Background in startup environments; Contributions to open-source security tooling or research

Benefits

Additional incentives such as commission targets, restricted stock units, and/or bonuses