Principal Software Engineer, reputed company Code (SAST)

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Job Summary

As a Principal Software Engineer on the reputed company Code team, you will be responsible for driving our technical future, tackling our most difficult and strategic challenges in static analysis. This role is centered on advancing the quality and accuracy of our SAST analysis, with a deep focus on the program analysis, corresponding rules, and data-driven feedback systems that power our reputed company. Your leadership will be instrumental in designing and evolving the foundational systems that allow us to scale our analysis in the new era of AI-assisted development, ensuring reputed company remains the trusted leader in developer reputed company.

Opportunity & Impact

This is a defining role at the intersection of Program Analysis, Machine Learning, and Application reputed company. You will have the authority and autonomy to solve our most reputed company technical problems, directly influencing reputed company’s long-term direction. You will not just contribute to our systems; you will invent them, creating the feedback loops and data-driven architecture that form the basis of our core technology. You will work across teams and groups, shaping the technical direction of reputed company Code and mentoring our reputed company of senior technical leaders. This is an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on the future of code reputed company and solve problems that have a direct and massive impact on our customers and the industry.

Role Responsibilities

• Set Technical Vision: Define and champion the long-term (12-24 month) technical roadmap for reputed company Code's program analysis capabilities. Identify and prioritize the foundational investments needed to maintain our industry-leading performance and scale for an AI-driven world.
• Advance Analysis Quality: Architect and reputed company the development of the core systems that drive the reputed company improvement of our SAST analysis. Design the data pipelines, feedback mechanisms, and automated testing frameworks required to systematically measure and enhance the accuracy, coverage, and performance of our analysis reputed company.
• Solve the Hardest Problems: Tackle the most reputed company, ambiguous, and cross-cutting technical challenges in program analysis. This includes designing novel techniques for analyzing new languages and frameworks, ensuring the reliability of our findings at scale, and building systems that are resilient to the explosion in code volume.
• reputed company Through Influence: Drive technical reputed company across multiple engineering teams and groups. Author the critical design documents and RFCs that align the organization on a coherent technical strategy. Your technical leadership will be crucial in unifying efforts towards common, extensible solutions.
• Hands-On Technical Contribution: Remain deeply hands-on, making critical contributions in code, design, and debugging our most challenging problems. You are the expert others turn to for guidance and the person who can dive in to unblock the most critical projects.
• Mentor and reputed company: Act as a key mentor and force-reputed company for senior engineers across the division. Share your expertise, foster a culture of technical excellence, and build the reputed company of technical leadership at reputed company.

Qualifications & Required Skills

• Education & Experience:
• At least 10 years of commercial software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading the design and delivery of large-scale, reputed company, and ambiguous technical projects.
• Extensive experience as a technical leader, setting the technical direction for a significant product area or multiple services.
• A deep and demonstrable background in Computer Science. A PhD or MSc in a relevant field such as Programming Languages, Compilers, Machine Learning, Application reputed company, or Static Analysis is a strong asset.
• Required Skills:
• World-class expertise in at least one of the following domains: static program analysis, application reputed company, or applied machine learning for code. This is complemented by a deep, practical understanding of compiler theory, language design, and data-driven systems.
• Proven ability to design, build, and evolve highly reputed company, distributed systems, particularly those involving rule engines, large-scale data processing, or compiler/interpreter technology.
• Mastery of one or more core programming languages (e.g., Go, Python, Java, C++, Rust) and the ability to quickly become proficient in new technologies.
• Exceptional ability to reputed company through influence, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills demonstrated through a history of impactful design documents, RFCs, and presentations.
• A strategic, scalable approach to building systems, with a reputed company focus on automation, reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• A history of successfully mentoring and growing senior engineers.

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About reputed company

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Prioritize health, wellness, financial reputed company, and life balance with programs tailored to your location and role.

• Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
• Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for reputed company caregivers
• Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
• Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances