Principal Software Engineer (Go) (Remote)

The Opportunity

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization and product.  You will provide strategic technical leadership across our research and engineering teams while architecting and implementing our most critical features.  Your expertise will drive our security coverage, detections and overall platform capabilities, ensuring our customers can effectively identify and mitigate risk.

This role is ideal for a high-impact technical leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy, mentorship, and hands-on development. If you're passionate about building innovative security solutions and leading teams to success, join us as we redefine Exposure Management.

What You’ll Do

• Lead complex technical initiatives from ideation to implementation, delivering scalable, high-performing, and secure solutions
• Define and own the technical strategy for critical product areas, driving architecture and process improvements
• Research, assess, and develop advanced techniques for detecting vulnerabilities, exploits, misconfigurations, and security risks
• Design and integrate a modular vulnerability detection engine into our lightweight performant Go scanner
• Architect and implement new features for our enterprise SaaS platform, ensuring seamless scalability and security
• Diagnose and resolve production issues and software bugs, ensuring system reliability and performance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with researchers and engineers to incorporate vulnerability intelligence into our platform
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineering talent, fostering a culture of technical excellence
• Evangelize the successful adoption of best-in-class technologies, tooling, and engineering processes to drive efficiency and innovation

Skills You Have

• 15+ years of experience building enterprise software applications
• Deep subject matter expertise in cybersecurity, particularly in vulnerability assessment, exploit development, misconfiguration detection, and risk mitigation
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex operational issues in production environments
• Extensive experience building network scanners, implementing and reverse engineering network protocols, and working with network layers, computer architecture, and operating systems
• A history of full software development lifecycle experience, from architecture and prototyping to implementation, testing, and maintenance.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Go and Javascript
• Hands-on experience with security tools, including Nmap, Nuclei, Wireshark, and Metasploit
• A track record of leading and influencing high-performing software teams
• Exceptional problem-solving, interpersonal, and communication skills—both written and oral

Salary Range

runZero values transparency in the hiring process. According to our market data, we’re expecting this role to come in at a salary of about $225k - $275k, plus stock options. We know that the talent market is always in flux, so please let us know if you believe we have advertised this role in the wrong salary band. 

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