[Remote] Principal Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nebulock is an agentic threat hunting platform that autonomously identifies malicious behaviors across endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry. The Principal Software Engineer will lead data platform projects, drive architectural improvements, and co-own scalable ingestion, transformation, and search systems that power AI-driven threat hunting workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest and process large volumes of security telemetry (TBs / day)
• Own API and event stream integrations across a wide range of third-party data sources (EDR, IAM, Cloud, SaaS)
• Partner with product stakeholders to build data solutions that will be consumed by both internal and external customers
• Guide the future technical direction that allows rapid development of product capabilities and efficient scaling of backend systems
• Use AI agents to build creative solutions to solve problems such as data mapping and entity correlation
• Set and promote engineering standards and best practices, including observability, monitoring and automated testing
• Be a mentor to junior engineers and help grow the engineering talent within the team

Skills

• 8+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems supporting customer-facing products
• Proficiency in Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar
• Hands-on experience designing large-scale event streaming systems such as Kafka or similar
• Experience working on search or analytics products over large datasets
• Strong systems thinking and understanding of performance, cost and complexity trade-offs
• Experience with either AWS or GCP
• Ability to adapt, iterate, and ship quickly
• Hunger for growth and the desire to work in a low-ego environment
• Experience building and scaling distributed systems from the ground up
• DevOps or platform engineering experience
• Cybersecurity experience
• Startup experience

Benefits

• A dynamic startup environment with opportunities for rapid career growth
• A collaborative culture that values innovation and creativity
• Equity options
• Comprehensive benefits package (including 401K)
• Opportunities to travel for conferences, workshops, and team-building events

Company Overview

AI-driven threat hunting platform. It was founded in 2023, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://nebulock.io/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Nebulock has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.