SGNL’s modern Privileged Identity Management system eliminates standing access to critical systems by granting and revoking contextual access in real time, drastically reducing the potential impact of a breach. By incorporating context-based intelligence, SGNL prevents attackers—leveraging compromised credentials or other means—from freely navigating cloud applications like Azure, AWS, GitHub, and Salesforce, as well as on-prem systems.
That’s why global enterprises and fast-growing mid-market companies alike are turning to SGNL to reduce their identity attack surfaces and secure critical systems. Founded in 2021, SGNL is backed by top security technology investors, including Cisco Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Fika Ventures, M12/Microsoft's Venture Fund, Moonshots Capital, and Resolute Ventures. For more information about SGNL, visit https://sgnl.ai.
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About You
As a Principal Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, designing, and delivering the SGNL platform that can meet the needs of our current and future customers. Your expertise and leadership will be instrumental in guiding and mentoring teams, influencing technical direction, and driving innovation and business impact.
You are versatile, able to thrive in a dynamic, entrepreneurial setting and you are comfortable managing competing and rapidly changing priorities and are able to bring order to ambiguous scenarios. You are data-driven and analytical. You can clearly & effectively communicate (written as well as verbally) deep technical concepts across the organization and customers.
You will
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex and scalable services
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and coaching to engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers and other stakeholders to define and execute technical strategies aligned with business objectives
- Drive innovation through research, prototyping, and implementing cutting-edge technologies or methodologies
- Contribute proactively to technical discussions, code reviews, and implementation
- Champion best practices, coding standards, and methodologies to uphold high-quality engineering principles and continuously improve engineering efficiency
- Evaluate and optimize system performance, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
- Provide technical leadership both within and outside of SGNL by actively contributing to blog posts, technical articles, and engaging in tech talks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with industry partners, fostering relationships to drive joint initiatives and stay abreast of industry trends
Basic Qualifications
- 15+ years of professional software development experience
- 12+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
- 10+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience building cloud-deployed applications
- BS/BE in CS or related field
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years experience building high scale, distributed systems that handle large amounts of data
- Proven track record of building and delivering mission critical, production software systems from ground up
- Proven track record of designing systems for performance, scalability, reliability, and availability
- Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms especially graphs
- Deep understanding and proven experience working with various types of data stores (relational DBs, KV, NoSQL, GraphDB)
- Experience with Microservices/Containerization/Kubernetes
- Experience with Golang will be a big plus
- Experience with Authz/n concepts and technologies will be an advantage
- Masters/PhD in CS or related field
Additional Information
- Base salary range for this position: $200,000.00 - $300,000.00 per year
- Eligible to participate in SGNL's Equity Incentive Plan
*Final offer will be at the company's sole discretion and determined by multiple factors, including years and depth of relevant experience and expertise, location, and other business considerations.
SGNL is excited to offer full-time employees the following, growing list of benefits:
- Health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Sick Leave
- Latest Apple equipment (as of your joining date)
- Customizable home office package, including external monitor, desk, office supplies
- Amazon Kindle and books covered by SGNL
- Company board game socials
- Professional development programs (Both inside and outside of SGNL)
- Your choice of work environment (i.e. Work from Home, Work from an Office, Hybrid)
SGNL reserves the right to amend or modify for any reasons in accordance with applicable law.
Does this all sound exciting to you? Apply! Even if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications above, we encourage you to still apply because we know that the confidence gap and feeling like an imposter can stop truly amazing candidates and we want to speak with you. We’re excited to review your application and do not require a cover letter (unless you want to submit one).
Not located where the job is posted? Still apply! Our HQ is located in Palo Alto, CA but our people don’t have to be since we’re remote, hybrid, or in-person friendly. We offer a competitive salary, an employee equity plan, 3 weeks of PTO (with an additional week for each year of service), and health coverage.
SGNL is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We want to celebrate what you bring to our team and know we can always get better. SGNL is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. We are also committed to ensuring equal opportunity in employment for qualified persons with disabilities. Please email [email protected] or discuss with your recruiter if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process.
Quick video introducing our product
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What We Do
SGNL was founded in 2021 by product and engineering leaders from companies such as Google, Okta, and Microsoft to push the boundaries of what is possible in the enterprise authorization space. We help enterprise companies to make sense of access to sensitive information and ensure the trust of their customers.
SGNL offers an integrated access service for organizations to have a single pane to manage authorization based on role, context, and justification, remediate authorization requests, and prevent anomalous user behavior through modeling expected user behavior across applications.
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