Principal Engineer

Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid)

Duration: Contract

Pay range: $80-$85

Position Summary:

• The Principal Engineer role is a senior, hands-on architecture position focused on designing and delivering secure, scalable cloud-native platforms that support enterprise cybersecurity initiatives.
• The role requires strong expertise in Java and/or Python, deep system design knowledge, and experience building distributed systems at scale. This position is centered on developing modern cybersecurity platforms, integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, and enabling secure adoption of cloud and AI-driven services. The engineer will work across multiple teams to define ecosystem-wide architecture, improve developer experience, and contribute to large-scale platform modernization efforts. This is a highly technical, architecture-heavy role requiring experience with Azure and/or GCP, Terraform, SQL, and cloud security practices. Strong understanding of vulnerability management, risk mitigation, and DevSecOps principles is essential, along with excellent communication skills and the ability to influence engineering decisions across teams.

Key Responsibilities

D2D:

The Software Developer will support the Cyber Security portfolio within Cyber Data Risk & Resilience (CDRR), contributing to the design, development, and delivery of secure, scalable technology solutions.

This role focuses on building modern cybersecurity platforms, enhancing system architecture, and enabling secure adoption of cloud and AI-driven services.

Responsibilities:

-Design, develop, and maintain high-quality software solutions supporting cybersecurity initiatives

-Partner with engineering and AI/ML teams to integrate security into deployment pipelines and cloud-based AI services

-Re-architect core components using modern design patterns to improve scalability, resiliency, and availability

-Develop and enhance distributed systems leveraging event-driven and service-oriented architectures

-Collaborate with global teams and stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions aligned to business needs

-Support secure development practices across CI/CD pipelines and DevOps workflows

-Contribute to system design decisions, performance optimization, and technical problem resolution

-Build and maintain data storage solutions across relational and non-relational systems

-Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards and governance requirements

Project:

• Cyber Security Oriented Projects
• Development and building new software integration with tooling and vendor support.
• This is a Principle Engineering Role
• Design and integrate across the ecosystem AND will support more than one development team.
• Client is rearchitecting a lot of their core components right now due to AI/LLMs (Mythos)
• Looking for more technical exp
• This person will be technical oriented, but much more Senior in a sense that they will come in and help design and implement. Think about the ecosystem as a whole. "Developer Experience"
• This teams customers is the 20 K developers across the firm and they need to ensure their lives are much easier going forward. So the solutions they build will be centered around those folks
• Security, vulnerability and risk mgmt will be very important at this scale

Must Have skills:

• 10 Experience working within either Java AND/OR Python (Hands On)
• Strong Understanding of object oriented design and application architecture
• Design, Implement Eco as a whole
• Vulnerability and Risk mgmt
• Azure and/or GCP Exp (Cloud Platforms)
• Terraform or Good understanding of how Infrastructure-as-code works
• SQL Exp
• Understanding of how the database tables interact and ability to navigate
• Strong Communication and Self- Starter
• This is a SENIOR level role. Must be confident and articulate

Russell Tobin is a leading minority-owned professional and technical recruitment and staffing advisory organization. We are comprised of specialized practices focusing on a variety of skill sets and industries. Having a depth and breadth of industry expertise, our subject matter experts are able to provide tailored and swift sourcing solutions to fulfill client hiring needs. In other words, we connect top talent with companies. We are the staffing arm of the Pride Global network, a minority-owned integrated human capital solutions firm, with additional offerings in vendor management, payroll programs, and business process optimization.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Fair Chance Employment

Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.

Accommodations

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us.

Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates:

Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.

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