Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

• Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Define the long-term architectural vision for ADEM backend services, ensuring scalability to support hundreds of millions of global endpoints and multi-petabyte telemetry streams
• Architectural Governance: Lead the "Design Review Board" for the ADEM org, ensuring that all new services adhere to Secure AI by Design, high-availability patterns, and cost-efficient GCP utilization
• AI/ML Integration at Scale: Drive the transition from traditional analytics to Agentic AI workflows, overseeing the backend orchestration required to power LLM-driven autonomous remediation
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product Management, Data Science, and DevOps to translate ambiguous business requirements into robust, high-performance technical specifications
• Engineering Excellence & Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Staff and Senior engineers, fostering a culture of rigorous testing, high code quality, and proactive technical debt management
• Crisis Leadership: Serve as the ultimate technical escalation point for complex, systemic production issues, leading post-mortems that drive permanent architectural improvements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a significant portion dedicated to designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
• Advanced AI-Augmented Development: expert in leveraging AI-powered development tools—including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub Copilot—to radically accelerate the SDLC and automate complex refactoring and testing workflows
• Distributed Systems Mastery: Proven track record of architecting systems that handle billions of events per day with strict sub-second latency requirements using Rust, Go (Golang), Java, or Python
• GCP Principal-Level Expertise: Deep authoritative knowledge of the GCP ecosystem (GKE, Spanner, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow) and the ability to optimize cloud spend through sophisticated architectural choices (FinOps)
• Data Plane Innovation: Experience building high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines using technologies like Kafka, Pulsar, or Flink
• Security & Networking Visionary: Deep understanding of Zero Trust architecture, L4-L7 networking, and advanced encryption standards
• Open Source & Community: A history of contributing to open-source projects (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio) or speaking at industry conferences is highly desirable
• Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent high-level professional experience

Open Source & Community: A history of contributing to open-source projects (e.g., Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio) or speaking at industry conferences is highly desirable

compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus