Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems

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About the role We are looking for a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who can define architecture, guide execution across multiple teams, and solve complex distributed-systems problems in security-critical infrastructure. The systems you help design will support demanding production requirements: four nines of availability, high scalability, consistently low latency, strong security boundaries, and safe behavior under partial failure in a multi-region setup. You will work across the full lifecycle of these systems, from architecture and technical strategy through implementation guidance, operational readiness, incident learning, and long-term evolution.…

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