Principal Software Engineer Golang Java

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behavior. With a combination of industry-leading tools, services, and expertise, only Black Duck helps organizations maximize security and quality in DevSecOps and throughout the software development life cycle.

As a Software Engineer 5 / Principal Software Engineer , you will provide technical leadership and will coach our engineers to maintain and evolve our industry-leading application security platform. Join us and be part of a team that’s pushing the boundaries of web application development with agile practices, cloud-native patterns, state-of-the-art engineering methodologies and tools like GitHub Copilot and other AI/GenAI tools.

The ideal candidate is a visionary leader with proven track record of delivering complex strategic cloud solutions. A hands-on technology enthusiast, and a solid full-stack engineer, they also enjoy helping their peers and their organization remain at the forefront of our industry by identifying and helping implement the latest industry best-practices that boost our organization’s productivity and team members’ experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to multiple engineering teams, using best practices for SaaS and related technologies.
• Collaborate with the architecture and peer product teams, to define our product vision, build the roadmap and help drive the technical implementation.
• Oversee large-scale and complex projects to innovate and solve important customer and internal challenges.
• Inspire and mentor other team members, provide coaching and technical training where needed.
• Keep abreast of industry best practices, success and failures, and help the team adopt the right practices.

Key Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience developing large enterprise applications using microservices architecture, and container orchestration technologies, running on Kubernetes and/or cloud technologies (AWS or GCP).
• Proven track record of successfully delivering strategic projects
• Expertise in Golang / Java, ReactJS, and some experience with Perl (Good to have ReactJS / Frontend experience)
• Expertise in systems design, including experience with scalable architecture, performance optimization
• Advanced SQL skills with ability to write complex queries and conduct performance tuning
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and DevOps practices
• Advanced problem-solving abilities
• Strategic thinking
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent communication skills (in-person and remote)