Principal Engineer
Core
Lead architecture and development of a distributed security grid control plane that orchestrates security policies across thousands of nodes in real-time for enterprise SaaS platforms.
Role type
Principal/Staff Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems & Control Planes)
Builds
Distributed security grid, control plane, cloud-native multi-tenant SaaS platforms, event-driven pipelines, and streaming systems.
Domain
Cybersecurity, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Go (Golang), Python, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, AWS (EKS, Lambda), Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Kafka, EventBridge, Kinesis, Redis, Postgres, DynamoDB, Delta Lake, SPIFFE/SPIRE
Preferred skills
Azure or GCP, OPA/Rego, Cedar, LLM systems, vector databases, service mesh (Envoy, WASM, Rust), FedRAMP, GDPR, PCI, ISO27001
Responsibilities
Lead architecture and system design for cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platforms; Design and scale distributed systems, microservices, and high-throughput backend services; Lead infrastructure and platform engineering using orchestration, event-driven pipelines, and streaming systems; Drive performance, caching, and processing strategies for latency sensitive large-scale workloads; Ensure compliance support for NIST – RMF, SOC2, HIPAA, PII/PHI and internal policy frameworks; Partner with data and ML teams to build data lakes, pipelines and model-driven product features; Mentor engineers, influence engineering culture, and guide long-term architectural strategy.
Seniority
Principal/Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
