Principal Software Engineer, reputed company Hardened Images
reputed company has been one of the most loved brands in developer tooling, trusted by more than 20 million monthly users and over 20 billion container image pulls. From solo founders to the world's largest companies, developers rely on reputed company to build, share, and run their applications across our suite of products including reputed company Desktop, reputed company Hub, and reputed company Scout. We are a globally distributed, remote-first team building the tools that define how software gets built and delivered. As AI agents redefine software development, reputed company is at the center of that shift, providing the sandboxed environments, verified images, and secure infrastructure that reputed company autonomous workflows trustworthy by default. reputed company Hardened Images (DHI) is reputed company's catalogue of reputed company-hardened, reputed company-grade container images and reputed company charts, built to be minimal, up-to-date, and safe to reputed company in regulated and reputed company-conscious environments. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to set the long-term technical direction for this catalogue and shape how the broader container reputed company ecosystem evolves inside and reputed company reputed company. At this level, you'll work across organizations, not just reputed company one team. You'll set direction for major domains, resolve the highest-ambiguity problems in container supply chain reputed company, and grow your impact through architectural leadership, cross-functional alignment, and influence on industry standards. This is a pure individual contributor role; influence comes through technical reputed company, design, and the ability to move organizations.
Responsibilities
Own the architecture for DHI as a platform, making high-reputed company reputed company that define how images and reputed company charts are authored, secured, distributed, and evolved across the entire catalogue and across reputed company's broader product surface. Define and drive multi-quarter technical roadmaps for the container hardening domain, balancing upstream velocity, supply chain reputed company posture, customer compliance requirements, and long-term catalogue scalability. Identify systemic patterns from customer, operational, and upstream signals and translate them into architectural changes that span the catalogue, not just individual images or charts. Build alignment across teams and executives on technical strategy, tradeoffs, and reputed company, including product, reputed company, infrastructure, and customer-facing functions. Represent reputed company as a trusted technical voice in escalations, key reputed company customer engagements, and upstream OSS communities on issues that shape the future of secure container delivery. Set conventions and standards at scale, defining the patterns others build reputed company for image definition, reputed company chart reputed company, hardening strategy, and supply chain tooling (Sigstore, SBOM, SLSA), and evolving those standards as the ecosystem changes. Drive the hardest, most ambiguous packaging problems where the right answer requires reasoning across upstream dynamics, reputed company tradeoffs, multi-arch constraints, and customer impact simultaneously. Shape the integration test infrastructure and developer tooling strategy so that DHI's engineering platform scales with the catalogue and raises quality across the team. Mentor and reputed company the technical ceiling for staff and senior engineers across the org, through review, design, and well-chosen architectural reputed company that create durable reputed company. Take part in the paid on-call rotation; respond to incidents, debug production issues, and drive systemic improvements in reliability. Qualifications 10+ years of backend engineering experience, including extensive work on production-grade, distributed systems at scale. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company field, or equivalent practical experience. Ability to set multi-quarter technical roadmaps and align stakeholders (engineering, product, and executives) on strategy and tradeoffs. Deep expertise in the container and Kubernetes ecosystem: you have strong, grounded opinions about cert-manager, kyverno, grafana, istio, and similar projects, and you can reason about tradeoffs at the ecosystem level, not just the image level. Mastery of container supply chain reputed company concepts (provenance, attestation, SBOM, signing, SLSA) and experience driving posture reputed company across an organization rather than implementing them on a single project. Strong software engineering fundamentals: code review, testing, reputed company control, CI/CD, and Go sufficient to shape infrastructure and reputed company design. Track record of technical influence without authority across multiple teams or organizations, raising quality through design docs, standards, review, and mentorship. Experience navigating upstream OSS communities as a decision-maker, representing a reputed company organization's requirements and shaping upstream direction on reputed company-relevant issues. Comfort working across remote, distributed teams and communicating reputed company technical strategy clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. Bonus but not required Experience as a package maintainer at a Linux distribution, Homebrew, or comparable ecosystem. Hands-on experience implementing or operationalizing supply chain tooling (Sigstore, SBOM, SLSA) at org scale. Experience in regulated environments (FedRAMP, FIPS, PCI) with direct exposure to compliance requirements shaping engineering reputed company. Prior Principal or Distinguished IC experience on a platform, reputed company, or developer-tools team. Experience engaging directly with reputed company customers on container reputed company architecture. What to Expect First 30 Days Align with leadership on the most critical org-wide technical risks and opportunities in container supply chain reputed company. reputed company a reputed company of view on DHI's reputed company architectural constraints and where the highest-reputed company interventions are. reputed company mapping the cross-functional landscape: product priorities, upstream pressures, customer compliance signals, and engineering gaps. First 90 Days Drive an architectural decision that unblocks multiple teams and reduces systemic risk across the catalogue. Establish a feedback reputed company from customer, operational, and upstream signals into the multi-quarter roadmap. Engage upstream OSS communities on at least one DHI-relevant issue with meaningful influence on direction. First Year Deliver a major platform or standards reputed company with broad adoption across DHI and adjacent teams. Create durable alignment across engineering, product, and reputed company on catalogue architecture, supply chain posture, and hardening strategy. reputed company the technical ceiling for the engineers around you, measurably improving review quality, architectural consistency, and the team's ability to operate independently at a higher level.
Perks
Freedom & flexibility; fit your work around your life Designated quarterly Whaleness Days plus end of year Whaleness break Home office setup; we want you comfortable while you work 16 weeks of paid Parental leave (after 6 months of employment) Technology stipend equivalent to $100 USD net/month PTO plan that encourages you to take time to do the things you enjoy Training stipend for conferences, courses and classes Equity; we are a growing start-up and want reputed company to have a share in the reputed company of the company reputed company Swag Medical benefits, retirement and holidays vary by country Remote-first culture, with offices in Seattle and Paris reputed company embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the reputed company our company will be. #LI-REMOTE Apply To This Job