About the Job:
The Principal Software Engineer role at Cyderes reports to the VP of Engineering within the Managed Services department. This role will partner with leadership and delivery teams to make technical and architectural decisions while considering scale and performance of the infrastructure and organization. This role will work closely with all teams within Managed Services to help deliver innovative and high-quality features and services to Cyderes clients. This important leadership role brings together thought leadership and experience with solutions, software, and architecture.
The candidate will have the opportunity to work on innovative and impactful projects within a collaborative and supportive team environment. This role will also help define the creative Engineering roadmap that drives success and outcomes for Cyderes services. The ideal candidate will be an individual who has a passion for the cloud, stays up to date with new technologies and has experience with designing and building infrastructure at scale, cloud security, and general cyber security.
Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guide the development of a comprehensive platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability while driving the adoption/evaluation of new cloud technologies and tools that align with business goals and technical needs
- Develop future-state implementation reference documentation for architectural deployments or changes
- Help define and communicate strategic direction and guidance including mentoring high-performance Engineering teams with multiple functions
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to architect solutions while also retaining the ability to dig into code and help problem-solve where needed
- Collaborate with leadership to monitor and manage the success of OKRs in Engineering
- Possess an in-depth understanding of all Cyderes business units and Cyderes services and possess the ability to communicate to executive leadership and stakeholders
- Speak to and present on technical content to the organization and clients while also understanding business requirements
- Define and help enforce cloud engineering best practices, coding standards, and development processes to help maintain high quality cloud solution and codebase
- Collaborate with DevOps and the rest of Engineering to maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and security best practices
- Assist with troubleshooting complex production issues and creation of root cause analysis as well as implementation of corrective actions when needed
- Partner with leadership to craft, communicate, and execute a vision and mission for the Engineering team
- Cultivate a high-performing, blameless, and fun culture in the Engineering organization as well as mentor and coach junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous growth, learning, and innovation
Requirements:
- Must have prior experience working with a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider or a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), as this is essential to the role.
- Ability to inspire ownership, accountability, and confidence for high performing development teams
- Ability to architect critical project features which involve integration with multiple different teams all while supporting multiple complex projects at a time
- Proven experience in cloud-native solutions, microservices architecture, containerization, and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code
- In-depth knowledge of the three major cloud technology environments and their applications (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience mentoring Engineering teams while leading them to successful delivery
- Proven experience with developing relationships and trust across multiple levels of an organization
- Relevant certifications in GCP, AWS, and/or Azure
- 7+ years of experience working on or with software development teams using CI/CD, agile methodologies, and SDLC
- BS/MS, Computer Science / Engineering or relevant industry experience
