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The Principal, Software Engineer joins the Data Security Platform team to protect data across systems, applications, and associates. This role involves designing and building highly scalable distributed systems to protect petabytes of data at rest and in motion across structured and unstructured sources. You will architect resilient services for authentication, authorization, auditing, and data protection while enforcing fine-grained access controls with minimal performance overhead. Key responsibilities include driving technical strategy, mentoring engineers, and optimizing system reliability. Required technical expertise includes over ten years of experience with Java, Go, SQL, and NoSQL databases, alongside deep knowledge of JVM internals, memory management, and storage engines. You will solve complex engineering challenges involving real-time policy enforcement and low-latency access control within a large-scale enterprise data security environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214500 from 1193 postings across 76 companies.
Architect and build large-scale distributed systems for enterprise data security.
Design scalable services for authentication, authorization, auditing, and data protection.
Develop solutions to enforce fine-grained access controls with minimal performance overhead.
Optimize system performance, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Lead critical design reviews and contribute to long-term platform architecture.
Mentor engineers and establish engineering best practices across the organization.
Drive the full software development lifecycle including coding, testing, and CI/CD deployment.
Translate ambiguous business problems into actionable technical requirements and metrics.
What we're looking for
Must have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 5 years of software engineering experience.
Alternatively, must have 7 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Must have 10+ years of software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.
Must have 5+ years of experience designing and architecting complex distributed systems in production environments.
Must have 10+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Go.
Must have 10+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
Must have deep understanding of JVM internals, memory management, garbage collection, thread management, and performance tuning.
Must have strong expertise in concurrent and multithreaded programming.
Cloud-Native Architecture
Distributed Systems
AI/ML
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
Real-time Data Processing
Software Development Lifecycle
Model-driven Design
WCAG) 2.2 AA
Java
Spring Boot
Kafka
No SQL
AI/ML
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native Architecture
Event Driven Architecture
Software Development Lifecycle
Platform Engineering
WCAG) 2.2 AA