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Principal Software Engineer - Systems Security

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Job Description

We are looking for a highly skilledPrincipal Software Engineer with strong architectural and systems design expertiseto drive the evolution of our next-generation platform. You will shape the technical vision, design scalable and secure systems, and lead architectural decisions that influence multiple product lines.

Engineering & Delivery

  • Design and build system services using modern engineering practices, with a deep understanding of runtime behavior, concurrency, messaging, and performance patterns.
  • Implement APIs across multiple styles and standards (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc), ensuring consistent patterns and a maintainable service ecosystem.
  • Develop and maintain management/control-plane components that support complex domain and containment logic.
  • Build reliable, well-modeled systems that support policy management, orchestration workflows, and stateful service interactions.
  • Deploy, operate, and optimize software in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Ensure engineering excellence through automated testing, performance tuning, and robust error-handling strategies.

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Act as a senior technical leader and mentor within the engineering team.
  • Lead design reviews, architecture discussions, and cross-team engineering initiatives.
  • Work closely with product managers, security teams, and platform engineers to deliver aligned and scalable solutions.
  • Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, and long-term implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Help shape engineering culture by promoting high standards for code quality, documentation, and system maintainability

What you need to bring:

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant architectural ownership, modeling, domain-driven design, and building distributed systems.
  • Strong engineering proficiency with.NET Core(deep understanding of internals, patterns, application architecture).
  • Experience developing and maintainingSOARsystem componants and control planes.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Experience designing and implementing APIs across multiple technologies (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc).
  • Experience with streaming/event technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, etc).
  • Experience building secure, resilient systems with strong attention to failure modes and operational readiness.
  • Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.

Nice to Have

  • Experience withcontainment models in security platforms(eg, policy-driven containment workflows).
  • Background working withsecurity products, endpoint or network security, or secure system design.
  • Exposure toUI frameworksor front-end integration patterns.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, or other DevOps tooling.
  • Experience designing systems forhigh scale or regulated environments.

About Company

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components, as well as software and related services to consumers, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health, and education sectors. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The HP Garage at 367 Addison Avenue is now designated an official California Historical Landmark, and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of 'Silicon Valley'".

Job ID: 139824699