SpyCloud

Principal Software Engineer – Next-Generation API & AI Platform Architecture

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5 days ago
Remote, United States or Austin, TX, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$169k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement customer-facing data and intelligence APIs with clear contracts, versioning, SLAs, and backward compatibility.
  • Design API interfaces for high-throughput endpoints, agentic workflows, context retrieval, and enrichment.
  • Build service layers and context hubs over systems of record and governed data models.
  • Integrate ML inference services and agentic orchestration with appropriate lifecycle management, monitoring, guardrails, and rollback mechanisms.
  • Design reliable, observable, scalable services and infrastructure supporting batch and streaming workloads on AWS.
  • Drive API, distributed-systems, code-quality, operational-readiness, and infrastructure-as-code standards.
  • Serve as a senior architectural voice, influence platform direction, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building distributed systems, APIs, or large-scale data platforms.
  • Deep experience designing and implementing customer-facing APIs as long-lived products.
  • Strong knowledge of schema governance, versioning strategies, contract design, distributed-systems reliability, observability, and scalability.
  • Experience productionizing ML models, exposing inference services, and designing or integrating agentic or autonomous workflows.
  • Experience building service layers over systems of record or semantic data layers.
  • Proficiency in Go and Python or other backend service languages.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks or Snowflake.
  • Strong experience with AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Preferred experience with AWS services such as Redshift, S3, and EC2; Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis, Neo4j, or AWS Neptune; SageMaker; and cybersecurity, identity, fraud, or risk systems.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work in the Austin headquarters two days per week, or remote work within the United States with travel to headquarters one to two times per quarter.
  • 401(k) with employer contribution; health, vision, and dental insurance; HSA with employer contribution; employer-paid life and disability insurance; generous PTO; and 16 paid holidays for U.S. employees.
  • U.K. employees receive retirement savings contributions, private health insurance and healthcare cashplan, life and income-replacement coverage, critical illness protection, an employee assistance program, 25 days of accrued holiday, eight paid bank holidays, and a winter holiday shutdown.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSDatabricksElasticsearchGoNeo4jPostgreSQLPythonRedisSnowflake

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