Principal Software Engineer (Cloud)

Boston, MA, Remote. Posted 6 months ago

The role

You will help define the technical foundation of an AI-native cybersecurity platform. You will lead system design, drive technical initiatives from concept to production, and mentor engineers.

What you will do

Lead design of scalable backend systems for the AI-native cybersecurity platform.
Drive complex technical initiatives from 0 to 1.
Partner with product, AI, security, and platform teams.
Lead design discussions and provide technical leadership.
Identify and address technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and operational challenges.
Improve system observability, reliability, testing, deployment workflows, and operational excellence.
Help shape engineering culture.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration.
Work in a fast-changing environment.

Required qualifications

15+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production-grade distributed systems.
Proven experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale, highly available cloud-native systems.
Strong system design expertise, including distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, data-intensive applications, and infrastructure scalability.
Experience leading complex technical projects with significant ambiguity and cross-functional coordination.
Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages such as Rust, Python, TypeScript, or Go.
Track record building systems on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Strong communication skills.
Comfortable and curious working with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.

Nice to have

Experience building AI-native products or integrating LLM/agent-based systems into production environments.
Background in cybersecurity, security operations, or high-sensitivity infrastructure environments.
Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms at scale.
Familiarity with real-time data pipelines, streaming systems, and large-scale telemetry processing.
Experience working in high-growth startup environments.
Track record building and scaling engineering teams, processes, and technical culture.

About the company

7AI is the foundational AI security company. It was founded in 2024 by Cybereason co-founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem-Amit.