Principal Software Engineer – Libraries Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical strategy for scaling across various language ecosystems, including .NET, Go, and Rust.

• Lead the automation of end-to-end CVE remediation processes, from detection to verified release.

• Establish direction for agentic/AI-driven patch generation and implement safety guardrails.

• Define the technical direction for the platform concerning package indexing, build and packaging pipelines, registry mirrors, and orchestration tools.

• Make decisions regarding build-versus-buy and sequencing for integrating new ecosystems.

• Collaborate with Ecosystem, Platform, Delivery, Sustaining, and Security teams on the platform roadmap.

• Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers while leading architectural design reviews.

• Create documentation and RFCs to support other teams.

• Define SLOs and oversee incident response and postmortem analyses.

• Investigate issues related to toolchains, compilers, and dependency resolution that impact pipeline reliability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of experience in designing, building, and managing infrastructure for language ecosystems or developer platforms.

• Proven ability to set technical direction at the Principal level across multiple teams.

• Hands-on experience in establishing or substantially enhancing support for a language ecosystem.

• Ideally familiar with .NET/NuGet, Go/modules, or Rust/Cargo.

• Strong expertise in Go programming.

• A history of reliably automating manual remediation workflows.

• Extensive experience with CI/CD, agentic pipelines, cloud-native infrastructure, and infrastructure as code.

• Familiarity with Docker/OCI, Kubernetes, Terraform, and pipeline tools like GitHub Actions, Argo, Tekton, or their equivalents.

• Experience in managing infrastructure at scale across diverse ecosystems.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues related to toolchains, compilers, and packaging across multiple ecosystems.

• Excellent written communication skills in a remote and distributed environment.

• A Principal ownership mindset and capability to make ecosystem-generalization decisions even with incomplete information.

• Nice-to-have: Knowledge of SLSA, SBOMs, sigstore, provenance, attestations, and secure-by-default packaging.

• Nice-to-have: Experience with Linux distributions, packaging, and reproducible build systems, including Alpine, Wolfi, Debian, Bazel, CMake, or Ninja.

• Nice-to-have: Understanding of AI/ML packaging and infrastructure, including PyTorch and TensorFlow, in cloud/Kubernetes settings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible and Remote-First Culture.

• Opportunities for team meetups.

• Bi-annual destination summits.

• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone, and internet expenses.

• Stock options upon hiring and promotion.

• Participation in secondary offerings.

• 10 years to exercise stock options.

• 100% coverage of health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and their dependents.

• Flexible time off policy.

• 18 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing parents.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birthing parents.