Principal Software Engineer
Chainguardabout 3 hours ago
Base Salary
$220k - $258k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the Athena clearing house.
- Define and drive the transition to a sustainable, production-grade product stack.
- Partner with staff engineers to establish domain ownership and technical standards.
- Lead the design of systems that process unstructured vulnerability reports.
- Identify and retire technical debt from the prototyping phase.
- Serve as a thought partner on build-vs-buy decisions and capacity planning.
Requirements
- Track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems.
- Deep fluency in Go and experience with GCP and Terraform.
- Ability to work with messy, unstructured data.
- Experience transitioning teams from prototypes to maintainable systems.
- Experience building systems for multiple customer types with different entitlements.
- Comfort operating across the full backend stack with minimal hand-holding.
- Opinions about cost-efficient AI usage are a plus.
- Prior background in security-adjacent domains is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible and remote-first culture with team meetup opportunities.
- Receive stock options upon hire and promotion with 10 years to exercise.
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off to recharge and reset.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.