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Senior Principal Software Engineer-Visa Only

Veracode
Burlington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Mar 2025

About the role

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Looking for an innovative, high-growth, multi-award-winning company in one of the hottest segments of the security market?  Look no further than Veracode! 

Veracode is a global leader in Application Risk Management for the AI era. Powered by trillions of lines of code scans and a proprietary AI-generated remediation engine, the Veracode platform is trusted by organizations worldwide to build and maintain secure software from code creation to cloud deployment.

Learn more at www.veracode.com, on the Veracode blog, and on LinkedIn and Twitter

Research and develop expanding security scanning for new programming languages, package managers, and build systems for the Veracode security platform.  Architect complex systems with high scalability, performance, and security. Write high-quality testable code, maintain documentation, and building and operate high scale fault-tolerant cloud -native infrastructure for the Veracode security platform.  Partner with other development/operations teams to architect, design, and implement solutions within a distributed computing environment and running it at very high availability. Mentor and pair with other engineers in the team to ensure a highly productive engineering team. Present and share new architecture methodologies code and testing standards to a company wide audience and represent the company in external tech conferences. Design and build new features of the product such as SCA scan engines, open-source library crawlers, vulnerability crawlers and detection of open-source libraries, container security, component activity, licenses, and Machine Learning pipelines, Fed Ramp compliance, and maintaining the complete backend infrastructure. Architect and build new static code analysis engines and LLM system for various programming languages like Python, Java, C++, Golang, and Rust. Build the Intermediate AST representation for the languages for fixing security issues.  Provide leadership to initiate and communicate complex technical concepts to executives and drive results from the team.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Science, Computer Engineering, or related field and 8 years of work experience in the job offered or related field of Software Engineering; or in the alternative, Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Science, Computer Engineering,  or related field and 6 years of work experience in the job offered or related field of Software Engineering.

If qualifying by Bachelor’s degree, must have the following:

  • 5 Years of experience in security domain  
  • 5 Years of experience in building security tools (i.e., building CLI to scan programming languages, low level compiler and parser design)
  • 5 Years of experience in building scalable data pipelines

If qualifying by Master’s degree, must have the following:

  • 3 Years of experience in security domain  
  • 3 Years of experience in building security tools (i.e., building CLI to scan programming languages, low level compiler and parser design)
  • 3 Years of experience in building scalable data pipelines

What we offer you

  • Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs. 
  • Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
  • “Take What You Need” time off policy.
  •  Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
  • Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
  • Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

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