CareerPlan

Principal Software Engineer - Agentic SOC

United States of AmericaRemoteFull-time$215k2026-10-07 → 2026-11-10
Remote

Core

Design and lead the architecture of an LLM-based agentic system that autonomously investigates security signals, reconstructs incidents, and augments SOC analysts by handling high-volume, repetitive triage work.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Agentic SOC / LLM Agents)

Builds

Production-grade agentic investigation system for enterprise cybersecurity

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI / LLM Agents

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM-based agent architecture, security mindset, multi-tenant isolation, system evaluation for non-deterministic systems, production system leadership, technical strategy

Preferred skills

Hands-on experience with tool use and guardrails in agents, experience building evaluation frameworks for AI systems

Technologies

LLMs, Python (implied by context of engineering), telemetry systems

Responsibilities

Own the architecture of agentic investigation and define how signals move into investigation; Build agents that investigate like a strong analyst; Take toil off analysts by building LLM-powered pre-processing; Bring a security mindset to the agent design; Treat evaluation as a core part of the product; Decide with data what the system does on its own

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with technical leadership