Principal Software Engineer (Sensor)

Job description

We're an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves writing code that helps protect customers and frustrates the adversary. You’ve written serious software in a careful way, and you love scalable systems built right with small teams. Read more about us and our mission here https://www.clearvector.com/about-us. In this role, you'll work on our innovative eBPF-based sensor that provides real-time visibility and control for Linux workloads across containers, virtual machines, and bare-metal servers. This technology is central to our identity-driven security approach. The ideal candidate has experience with low-level systems programming (Rust preferred), a strong understanding of Linux internals, and familiarity with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments including AWS and GCP. If you're passionate about building high-performance, security-focused software that operates reliably in production environments, we want to talk to you. Responsibilities - Design, architect, and develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way - Maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment - Work closely with company leadership to guide our entry into the market - Interact with potential customers and the community to help drive adoption - Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices - Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review and other cultural practices - Regularly demonstrate progress during our weekly internal demos Top candidates for this role will have: - Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love - Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale - Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language - Ability to learn Rust and Typescript - Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience - Experience working at a fast-growing startup - Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently - Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment - Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, Auth0, TypeScript, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude - At least 12 years of experience - Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization Additional notes - As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States. - We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas. - Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events.