Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Looking for an innovative, high-growth company in one of the hottest segments of the security market? Look no further than Veracode!

Veracode is recognized as a premier provider of SaaS-based software security solutions, transforming the way companies secure applications in today’s software-driven world. Veracode recently acquired Longbow Security, a pioneer in security risk management for cloud-native environments, underscoring our commitment to help organizations effectively manage and reduce application risk across the growing attack surface. Learn more about us at www.veracode.com!

What you will be responsible for:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain critical improvements across the
• Longbow product resulting in a highly stable and performant platform.
• Diagnose complex issues, evaluate competing solutions, and execute the best path forward.
• Ensure that security measures are incorporated into every aspect of the platform.
• Continuously extend the Longbow product with new features that solve real-world security problems based on your experience and feedback from customers.
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product/platform; collaborating with the entire team in solving the problems the correct way.
• Identify opportunities for technical innovation and improvements.
• Collaborate with other team members, both junior and senior, to help increase their technical capabilities, drive results-oriented execution, and create an environment of open innovation and creativity.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
• 8+ years of software development experience in Java, Python, or Go (ideally, or other software languages).
• Proven ability to quickly learn new programming languages, frameworks, platforms and tools.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining micro-services and cloud-native services (AWS preferably) in a production environment and scaling them quickly.
• Knowledge/experience designing and implementing data-intensive, distributed, streaming systems.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, data structures and algorithms.
• Strong knowledge and experience with building REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Appetite for learning new technologies and curiosity about how things work.
• Track record of owning projects from ideation to production and being able to competently and smoothly hand-off your work to others.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of engaging with both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Experience with the cybersecurity domain (advantage).

What we offer you

• Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs.
• Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
• “Take What You Need” time off policy.
• Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
• Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
• Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

Compensation Transparency

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Job Grade: Principal

Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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