Principal Software Engineer - Encryption

Engineering | Full-Time

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Whatever your preference - working from home, an office, or in between - you can choose the place that's best for your work and your lifestyle. We call this TEAM anywhere.

In this role, you'll get the chance to

• Regularly tackle the largest and most complex problems on the team, from technical design to launch
• Deliver solutions that are used by other teams and products
• Determine plans-of-attack on large projects
• Routinely tackle complex architecture challenges and apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Set the standard for thorough, meaningful code reviews
• Partner across engineering teams to take on company-wide initiatives spanning multiple projects
• Transfer your depth of knowledge from your current language to excel as a Software Engineer
• Mentor more junior members of the team

Your background

• 12+ years experience in multiple hands-on software/technology leadership roles, with end-to-end responsibility through the software development lifecycle
• Bachelor's or Master's degree (preferably a Computer Science degree or equivalent experience)
• Expertise with one or more prominent languages such as Java, Python, Kotlin, Go, or Scala is required, plus experience in at least one additional language
• Hands-on experience building encryption, key management, or other security-critical systems at scale
• Strong cloud security expertise, with hands-on experience on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Understanding of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS industry and of large-scale distributed systems
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between security, correctness, robustness, performance, space, and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision makers throughout the organization
• Considers the customer impact when making technical decisions
• Experience in CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment)
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