Principal Software Engineer, SecureAI

Role and team

Work arrangement

• The posting is marked hybrid and describes an in-person onboarding experience.

What you'll do

• Set technical direction for the Agent Access Policies framework and guide cross-platform architectural decisions.
• Design distributed systems for throughput, reliability, and consistency; turn ambiguous platform problems into modular technical designs.
• Build for both human and agent consumers and support their ability to build and automate on the platform.
• Set engineering standards, lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and align architecture with adjacent teams.
• Advance AI-native development practices and improve CI/CD, observability, documentation, reliability, support processes, and technical debt.
• Partner with Product and Design to own customer outcomes and raise the team's technical bar.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience and a proven record as a Principal- or Staff-level individual contributor.
• Extensive experience designing and operating high-scale, reliable backend and event-driven systems.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and drive technical direction without heavy top-down scoping.
• Experience working across engineering, product, and architecture and defining scalable backend architectures with complex API integrations.
• Strong understanding of web authentication, authorization, authentication flows, and sensitive-data security.
• Deep expertise building reliable, secure enterprise software in Java or another type-safe language.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Additional experience

• Experience leading a meaningful change in engineering practices, such as AI adoption, developer tooling, or culture change, is a plus.
• Identity, authorization, or IAM protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, or SAML are extra credit.
• Familiarity with agentic tooling, MCP, or LLM-facing design is extra credit.

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