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
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | 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
