Principal Software Engineer

Job Summary

To support the development of Athena, the remote Principal Software Engineer will set the technical direction for the clearing house, drive the transition to a production-grade product stack, and lead system design for processing vulnerability reports while ensuring high data quality and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities

• Set technical direction for data validation pipelines and customer entitlement systems
• Drive the transition from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade product stack
• Lead the design of systems that process unstructured vulnerability reports and surface clean signals

Required qualifications

• Proven experience setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems
• Deep fluency in Go and familiarity with GCP and Terraform
• Experience transitioning teams from prototypes to maintainable systems with monitoring and alerting
• Background in handling unstructured data and validating customer inputs
• Experience building systems for multiple customer types with varying access levels