Principal Software Engineer

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Who we are…

In a world of constant change we're leading the charge towards truly autonomous enterprises. Our cutting-edge platform harnesses the power of automation and generative AI to revolutionize how businesses manage and optimize their IT operations.

We're not just adapting to digital transformation—we're accelerating it. Our solutions bring business and operations leaders together unlocking new levels of innovation efficiency and scalability. We empower organizations to deliver superior customer experiences and drive revenue growth in an always-on always-mobile world.

At ScienceLogic we're building the foundation for Autonomic IT—a future where IT operations are self-healing self-optimizing and aligned perfectly with business objectives. Our team of visionaries is reshaping the $18B IT operations market creating cost-optimized efficient and next-level capabilities for enterprises worldwide.

What we’re looking for…

We empower our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love yet work for our business. Our product teams are cross-functional and durable. We staff our product teams with the skills and team members necessary to come up with effective solutions that are valuable viable usable and feasible. While product is accountable for ensuring our solutions are both valuable and viable engineering is accountable for ensuring the solution is technically feasible.

ScienceLogic is looking for an ambitious senior software engineer who possesses a strong understanding of security-first software engineering practices with a proven track record of delivering high quality software to accelerate customer outcomes. As a leader on our team you will be responsible for working closely with your team product management and security experts to develop core platform security features and influence product feature prioritization.  In addition you will play an integral role in increasing the secure engineering mindset across all teams through publishing best practices xAST vulnerability remediation coaching pipeline tool integration secure coding reviews and tech talks.

What you’ll be doing…

• Play a key role in continuously delivering platform security capabilities to our growing customer base across multiple deployment patterns (eg SaaS PaaS on-prem)

• Serve as a secure development leader and influencer including development and integration of security tools into our development environments and pipelines.

• Collaborate across engineering and security to provide security-first guidance for new feature development and to ensure the platform consistently meets accreditation and certification requirements

• Review and develop secure engineering and operational practices

• Conduct secure engineering tech talks to continue cultivating a security-first culture

Qualities you possess…

You’re an engineer that likes solving problems in a collaborative environment. You're passionate about delivering high quality secure production-ready code and believe that all teams not individuals are responsible for software quality.  Plus you’ve got the following:

• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or have equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering in at least one of the following core languages: Python Go PHP JavaScript (node.js)

• 5+ years of experience using Linux with the ability to navigate write scripts and work with packages

• Solid Security experience and knowledge including authentication and authorization LDAP Active Directory SAML applied cryptography security vulnerabilities and remediation

As a plus you have...

• 3+ years of experience in one or more of the following:

  • using MySQL/NoSQL and can evaluate and write efficient queries

  • front end Javascript development including React and mitigation of common security issues such as CSRF CSS and SQL injection.

  • security engineering computer and network security authentication and authorization LDAP Active Directory SAML applied cryptography Hashicorp Vault security vulnerabilities and remediation

  • deploying software securely in the public cloud (AWS Azure)

  • cloud native technologies and infrastructure as code (Docker K8s Docker Swarm Terraform)

  • CI/CD pipelines current build tools and advanced bash scripting.

    Benefits & Perks

    • A remote-first culture - work from home or come into the office it's totally up to you.

    • Comprehensive medical dental and vision plans.

    • 401(k) plan with employer match.

    • Flexible Paid Time Off (FTO) so that you can take the time that you need to re-energize.

    • Volunteer Time Off (VTO) - take two days off per calendar year to volunteer with your preferred charitable organization.

    • 5-year Service Milestone Sabbatical.

    • Paid parental leave.

    • Generous employee referral bonus program.

    • Pet insurance.

    • HQ Office centrally located in Reston Town Center featuring a well-stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages and catered lunch on Thursdays.

    • Regular virtual company-wide events including cooking classes yoga meditation and more.

    • The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

    Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At ScienceLogic we are dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which you are applying.

    Base Salary Range For This Role Is $175000 - $195000

    About ScienceLogic

    ScienceLogic empowers intelligent automated IT operations freeing up time and resources and driving business outcomes with actionable insights. ScienceLogic’s AIOps platform sees broadly across clouds and on-premises enabling business service visibility with relationship mapping and workflow automation to eliminate manual tasks. Trusted by thousands of organizations across the globe ScienceLogic’s technology has been proven for scale by the world’s largest service providers enterprises and government agencies.

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