RSA Senior Principal Software Engineer CloudJava

RSA is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Principal Software Engineer to help architect and develop our hybrid cloud and mobile secure identity platform RSA ID Plus. You will use state-of-the-art technologies and automation systemsalong with your technical ingenuityto design build and operate advanced SaaS solutions for enterprise security.

As part of the team responsible for designing implementing and integrating breakthrough features in our next-generation ID Plus Cloud Access Service youll contribute directly to how our customers securely access and protect their digital environments.

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

Experience & Required Skills:

• 15 years of experience developing object-oriented software with deep expertise in Java.
• Proven technical leadership across large-scale software development efforts.
• Hands-on experience designing implementing and testing cloud-native services and applications.
• Proven experience in the full development lifecycle of at least one enterprise-scale SaaS product.
• Strong understanding of high availability fault tolerance scalability and zero-downtime deployments.
• Ability to diagnose and solve complex performance and scalability issues in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of data storage strategies including analysis of trade-offs between SQL NoSQL and caching options.
• Deep understanding of SaaS operationsincluding observability monitoring alerting and incident responseto ensure service uptime and reliability.
• Familiarity with SLOs SLIs and other operational metrics used to measure service health.
• Demonstrated experience with secure coding practices threat modeling and data protection.
• Understanding of identity and access management standards such as SAML OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect and SCIM.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and release automation for cloud-hosted services.
• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g. Docker Kubernetes ECS AKS).
• Enthusiasm for ensuring comprehensive automated test coverage for all deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to lead design discussions and influence technical direction.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and promote best practices across teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced collaborative and distributed team environment.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Experience:

• Background in computer and network security particularly in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS development and deployment.
• Familiarity with relational (SQL Server MySQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks such as JUnit TestNG and Selenium.
• Proficiency in Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Experience integrating with directories such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP.
• Experience using Redis or other in-memory caching solutions.
• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (React Angular or similar).
• Familiarity with build and integration tools (IntelliJ Gradle Jenkins Git/GitHub).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation) for deployment automation.
• Experience with Agile development processes and team collaboration tools (JIRA Confluence).

Education:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent technical field required; a Masters degree is preferred.

RSA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RSA are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion national origin sex (including pregnancy) age disability sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status protected veteran status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. RSA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. All RSA employees are expected to support this policy and contribute to an environment of equal opportunity.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process please contact . All employees must be legally authorized to work in the US. RSA and its approved consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with RSA. RSA reserves the right to amend or withdraw any job posting at any time including prior to the advertised closing date.

RSA employees are eligible to participate in company-sponsored contributory health and welfare and 401(k) benefit plan.

Non-commission RSA employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses.

Pay Range: 155k - 260k

Required Experience:

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