Principal Software Engineer (Go)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer (Go): Building Athena, a distributed clearing house for vulnerability data to secure the open source supply chain with an accent on data validation pipelines and distributed systems architecture. Focus on transitioning rapid prototypes to production-grade systems, establishing technical standards, and managing unstructured enterprise data.

Location: Must be based in the US, Canada, or the UK

Company

hirify.global provides hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations eliminate risk and stay compliant.

What you will do

• Set the technical direction for the Athena clearing house, making architectural decisions on data validation, workflow orchestration, and OSV publication.
• Lead the transition from rapid prototyping to a sustainable, production-grade product stack with operational rigor.
• Design systems to process, deduplicate, and extract signals from unstructured vulnerability reports from enterprise customers.
• Partner with staff engineers to establish domain ownership and technical standards across the team.
• Identify and retire technical debt accumulated during high-velocity prototyping.
• Advise on build-vs-buy decisions, capacity planning, and long-term architectural strategies.

Requirements

• Proven track record of setting technical direction for complex, production-facing distributed systems.
• Deep fluency in Go, GCP, and Terraform is required.
• Experience validating and deduplicating messy, unstructured data from real-world enterprise inputs.
• Expertise in transitioning prototypes to maintainable systems with monitoring, alerting, and SLOs.
• Experience building systems with complex customer entitlement and access levels.
• Must be based in the US, Canada, or the UK.

Nice to have

• Prior background in security-adjacent domains such as supply chain or vulnerability management.
• Opinions on cost-efficient AI usage and resource allocation.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first culture with bi-annual destination summits and a monthly stipend for coworking, phone, and internet.
• Equity through stock options with an unusually long 10-year exercise window.
• 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
• Unlimited flexible time off to ensure recharge and reset.
• Generous paid parental leave (18 weeks for birthing parents, 12 weeks for non-birthing parents).