Principal Software Engineer

The Principal Software Engineer will join the core Correlation team to research, design, and implement the proprietary, patent-protected "Correlation" engine.
This engine is central to the Axonius platform's data capabilities and is key to achieving maximum scalability and performance.
The team's mission is to shape the future of cybersecurity asset management technology through innovative backend architecture.

Responsibilities
Provide architectural leadership for backend applications, contributing to the development of the core Axonius Platform.
Conduct research, perform POCs (Proof-of-Concepts), and solve complex, high-load engineering challenges.
Develop and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems to drive platform performance.
Coordinate engineering work across multiple R&D teams and communicate technical strategy across the wider organization.
Minimum Qualifications
8+ years of experience as a hands-on Software Engineer.
Proficiency in Python.
Experience building and maintaining scalable, fault-tolerant, high-load, distributed systems.
Proficiency in Docker, Linux, and networking concepts.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with monitoring, logging, and analysis tools.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical decisions using telemetry data.
Proven experience in diagnosing and resolving complex performance issues.
Experience working with on-prem customer deployments.
Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g., Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis).
Experience developing software that interacts with message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, SQS).

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About Axonius:

Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization's IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.

Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius supports millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.

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