Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

Job Description

We’re an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves writing code that helps protect customers and frustrates the adversary. You’ve written serious software in a careful way, and you love scalable systems built right with small teams. Read more about us and our mission here.

Responsibilities
• Design, architect, and develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Work closely with company leadership to guide our entry into the market
• Interact with potential customers and the community to help drive adoption
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices
• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review and other cultural practices
• Regularly demonstrate progress during our weekly internal demos

Top candidates for this role will have:
• Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love
• Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale
• Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language
• Ability to learn Typescript or Rust
• Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience
• Experience working at a fast-growing startup
• Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently
• Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment
• Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, Auth0, TypeScript, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude
• At least 12 years of experience
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Additional notes
• As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States.
• We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas.
• Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events.