Principal Software Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Over 210 employees work across sales, engineering, consulting and the SOC. NL Security protects more than 4,000 organisations, from regional hospitals to Fortune 500 manufacturers.

THE ROLE

NL Security is hiring for the Principal Software Engineer role on our Developer Experience team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. This is a hands-on coding role on software used by a few hundred thousand people. Expect code review, design discussions and a fair amount of debugging. You can work from home anywhere in India. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana.

REQUIREMENTS

• 8-10 years of professional software development experience.
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up.

PAY AND BENEFITS

• Health insurance for you and your family.
• Provident fund.
• Paid leave.
• Gratuity.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

We review applications as they come in.

Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at NL Security.