[Hiring] Principal Software Engineer @Truffle Security

Role Description

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to serve as a senior technical leader across Engineering. This is a hands-on role focused on improving architecture, scalability, reliability, and engineering quality across our systems.

Key responsibilities include:

• Improving architecture across backend services and platform infrastructure, and defining long-term architectural strategy and technical standards across teams.
• Establishing engineering standards that improve consistency, maintainability, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Scaling distributed systems and improving performance across core services.
• Improving production engineering practices, including observability, testing, incident response, and post-incident review.
• Identifying and reducing high-impact technical debt.
• Improving developer tooling, workflows, and engineering productivity.
• Helping teams use agentic development tools effectively across planning, implementation, testing, review, and validation.
• Partnering with product and infrastructure teams on scalable, resilient systems and simplifying systems as the platform scales.
• Mentoring Senior and Staff engineers through architecture reviews, technical coaching, and project guidance.
• Serving as a trusted technical advisor for difficult engineering and architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience operating as a Principal Engineer, Architect, or senior Staff+ engineer.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems in production.
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally in Go or a similar language.
• Strong architectural judgment and systems thinking, with the ability to simplify complex systems and make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Experience leading complex technical projects across teams.
• Proven ability to mentor and develop senior engineers.
• Strong communication and technical leadership skills.
• Strong operational mindset around reliability, scalability, observability, and performance.
• Ability to balance long-term technical quality with pragmatic execution.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
• Bias toward ownership, execution, and driving technical clarity in ambiguous environments.
• Practical experience using agentic or AI-assisted development tools in professional engineering workflows.
• Experience introducing shared workflows, prompts, rules, coding agents, or internal tooling that improve engineering productivity.
• Good judgment around where automation improves leverage, how AI-assisted work should be reviewed, and when direct engineering ownership is needed.

Requirements

• Experience in open source, cybersecurity, developer tooling, infrastructure, or platform engineering (Bonus Points).
• Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure experience (Bonus Points).
• Experience scaling platform infrastructure or multi-tenant systems (Bonus Points).
• Experience improving engineering processes and technical maturity across teams (Bonus Points).
• React and TypeScript architecture experience (Bonus Points).
• Familiarity with security and scanning infrastructure (Bonus Points).
• Experience with Django or Python (Bonus Points).

Benefits

• Fully remote within the U.S.
• A culture of mentorship, equity, and psychological safety.
• Competitive salary & meaningful equity.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 14 paid holidays, including Thanksgiving and Winter Break.
• Comprehensive health benefits with 80% of premiums covered for you and your dependents.
• Remote work stipend of $800 for new hires and $100/month for workspace comfort.
• Health & wellness stipend of $1,200/year.
• Learning & development stipend of $2,000/year.
• 401(k) match of 100% on the first 6% of contributions.
• 100% remote + company off-sites twice a year.