Principal Software Engineer

At Cerby we believe security is everyone’s business. Collaborating across your apps doesn’t need to be chaos. We are a mission-critical cybersecurity company that empowers your teams to operate securely and control their apps completely. We’ve built our product on the idea that teams deserve autonomy over their work apps. It turns out that why they are guaranteed a choice, security comes naturally.

More than 50% of all technology is spent outside of centralized IT organizations. Individual business units are taking their technology destiny into their own hands, and we enable that. End user onboarded applications are behind more than one third of all cybersecurity hacks. We provide the solution to manage that through enabling users to select their own technology and we automatically protect those applications.

Our founding team are proven operators that have achieved more than $1B in exits for multiple start-ups. Cerby raised $17M in a Series A funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures and Outpost Ventures, increasing their total funding to $32.5M. The investment underscores Cerby's momentum in the financial services sector, which often lacks modern identity protocol support. Existing seed investors, including Ridge Ventures, Founders Fund, and others, also joined this round, along with Ben Johnson, co-founder of Obsidian Security and Carbon Black.

OVERVIEW & IMPACT:

At Cerby, software engineers are at the heart of driving our technology and product innovation. As a Principal Software Engineer - IdLCM, you will lead the development of Cerby’s Identity Lifecycle Management (IdLCM) product. As a Principal Engineer you will take ownership, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive the success of the IdLCM product. You will help lead a security-first engineering culture while enhancing our product's user experience and maintaining high standards of software delivery.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and Develop: Build scalable, high-performance software solutions that align with business goals and deliver customer value.
• Collaborate: Work closely with product managers, engineering managers, UX designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software solutions that improve the security posture of our customers.
• Code Excellence: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, adhering to best practices and coding standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Participate in code reviews, share knowledge with team members, and continuously improve development processes.
• Innovation and Curiosity: Champion new technologies, frameworks, and methodologies that drive innovation and product evolution. Creates solutions that are used across the Engineering organization to improve productivity and/or quality of other engineers.
• Security Mindset: Contribute to our security-first approach by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and implementing robust solutions.
• Remote Collaboration: Collaborate effectively in a remote-first environment, ensuring seamless communication and teamwork across time zones.
• Culture: Demonstrates leadership and lives Cerby’s core values to achieve positive outcomes.
• Teamwork: Actively mentors, helps teammates perform better, and works effectively across teams and cross-functionally.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIRED SKILLS:

Experience:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Technical Expertise:
• Experience with designing, developing, and maintaining scalable SaaS applications in a high performance startup environment (prior experience in high growth venture funded SaaS startups preferred).
• Expertise with Python, TypeScript and Node.js.
• Familiarity and experience building systems with security standards and protocols: SCIM, SAML, OIDC.
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM) ecosystem and the cybersecurity industry.
• Prior experience with queuing systems (SQS or similar) and event streaming (Kafka or similar).
• Knowledge of cloud and IT security practices and concepts such as zero-trust and encryption.

Proficiency in:

• Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and prior experience building scalable cloud-based systems. ECS and Docker knowledge are a plus.

• Prior experience in cybersecurity is a plus.

• Distributed data stores, plus relational databases and key/value databases.

• Container based workloads.

• System reliability practices and observability.

• Software engineering practices such as Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Trunk based development, Domain Driven Design, Refactoring, Code reviews.

• Architecting and designing modular and decoupled software applications and systems.

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.

• Technical Execution Skill: Ability to break down highly ambiguous and complex technical initiatives into a detailed plan.

• Product Minded: strong interest and involvement in making a great product and working closely with customers and stakeholders to achieve it.

• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely both in written and verbal form

• Team Collaboration: Experience working in agile teams and a collaborative mindset to contribute to a positive team culture.

• Start-up Experience (Preferred): Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with changing priorities.