Principal Software Engineer
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7 hours ago
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Job Summary
Black Duck Software Inc. helps organizations build secure high-quality software minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck a recognized pioneer in application security provides SAST SCA and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code open source components and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools services and expertise only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.
Black Duck Software Inc. helps organizations build secure high-quality software minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck a recognized pioneer in application security provides SAST SCA and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code open source components and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools services and expertise only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.
As a Principal Software Engineer you will provide technical leadership and will coach our engineers to maintain and evolve our industry-leading application security platform. Join us and be part of a team thats pushing the boundaries of web application development with agile practices cloud-native patterns state-of-the-art engineering methodologies and tools like GitHub Copilot and other AI/GenAI tools.
The ideal candidate is a visionary leader with proven track record of delivering complex strategic cloud solutions. A hands-on technology enthusiast and a solid full-stack engineer they also enjoy helping their peers and their organization remain at the forefront of our industry by identifying and helping implement the latest industry best-practices that boost our organizations productivity and team members experience.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership to multiple engineering teams using best practices for SaaS and related technologies.
Collaborate with the architecture and peer product teams to define our product vision build the roadmap and help drive the technical implementation.
Oversee large-scale and complex projects to innovate and solve important customer and internal challenges.
Inspire and mentor other team members provide coaching and technical training where needed.
Keep abreast of industry best practices success and failures and help the team adopt the right practices.
Work and collaborate with UX and product management in delivered features
Key Qualifications:
BSc Or MSc in Computer Science or related field/degree
15 years of experience developing large enterprise applications using microservices architecture and container orchestration technologies running on Kubernetes and/or cloud technologies (AWS or GCP).
Proventrackrecordofsuccessfullydelivering strategic projects
Expertise in Golang Java and Perl
Expertise in software architecture systems design including experience with scalable architecture performance optimization
Experience with development and working with RESTful APIs
Experience in data modelling and working with RDBMS (PostgreSQL Oracle or MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
Experience with Messaging systems (RabbitMQ Kafka)
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot Claude Code Cursor or similar)
Experience in integrating AI capabilities into software systems including prompt engineering API integration and leveraging LLM-based services for automation and productivity.
Experience in developing in Linux environment
SolidunderstandingofAgile methodologies and DevOpspractices
Advancedproblem-solvingabilities
Strategicthinking
Strongleadershipskills
Excellentcommunicationskills (in-person and remote)
Nice to have:
Experience designing and implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or similar architectures to enable secure and scalable AI-driven workflows.
Experience with front end development frameworks (React)
Experience in GO and Python programming
Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender preference national origin age disability or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal addition Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws
Black Duck considers all applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender preference national origin age disability or status as a Covered Veteran in accordance with federal addition Black Duck complies with applicable state and local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment in every jurisdiction in which it maintains facilities. Black Duck also provides reasonable accommodation to individuals with a disability in accordance with applicable laws.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Build high-quality, secure software with application security testing tools and services from Black Duck. We are a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in AppSec.
