Principal Software Engineer

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of designing and shipping complex, large-scale distributed systems.

Deep experience owning systems end-to-end as the lead technical voice on large, complex projects, from architecture through production operation.

Expert knowledge of software design best practices, data structures, algorithms, and distributed-systems fundamentals.

In-depth knowledge of cloud technology and the judgment to choose the right tool for the job, from serverless functions vs.

containerized services to relational vs.

NoSQL databases and the appropriate use of caches, queues, and data-processing pipelines.

This is a rare opportunity to be a founding technical voice on Aura's AI Intelligence Platform, which unifies all of Aura's data and bridges the gap between AI agents and that data, with security and privacy as its foundational pillars.

This platform is how we turn everything Aura knows about digital threats into timely, personalized insights that protect our customers and their families from harm, whether that's surfacing the one alert that actually matters, helping a parent understand a change in their child's online behavior, or spotting a scam before it lands.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll take on the platform's hardest technical problems and own them end to end, building the infrastructure that lets AI operate over deeply sensitive information without compromising the security and privacy our customers trust us to hold.

You'll work primarily in Python and TypeScript on AWS, on systems that serve millions of Aura customers.

You'll take full ownership of complex initiatives from architecture through production, and set the technical direction a growing team of engineers builds on.

We're looking for more than a strong coder: someone who brings order to ambiguous problems, sets a high standard for security and privacy engineering, and influences heavily across teams through technical leadership rather than direct management.