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Confero

Principal Software Engineer

Confero, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Base pay range $230,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr

Hiring Staff/Principal Software and Security Engineers for IAM, AppSec and AI Security vendors Confero has partnered with a seed‑stage cybersecurity startup that is building an AI Agent Swarm that can ingest, reason over, and act on security telemetry in real time.

Their mission is to replace noisy alert streams with an autonomous layer that understands context, prioritises what matters, and then remediates.

They are backed by top security investors, already working with design partners, and are now hiring a

Principal Engineer

to own the ingestion and data plane that makes the swarm possible.

Location San Francisco, CA

The Role You will design and scale the pipelines that feed the agent swarm.

Build

high‑throughput ingestion

for cloud, identity, and endpoint telemetry

Architect

real‑time and batch pipelines

across Kafka, Kinesis, Lambda, S3

Build

fault‑tolerant distributed systems

in Go and AWS

Integrate LLM‑driven enrichment into the data layer

This is true 0→1 work. The architecture choices you make now will determine how fast, reliable, and intelligent these agents can become.

What They’re Looking For

Deep experience with

streaming systems, ingestion pipelines, and event processing

Strong backend fundamentals (Go, Python, Java or similar)

Someone who has built systems that have broken under real‑world load and then fixed them

Comfortable in very small teams, solving problems with incomplete information

Why This Role Matters The entire platform depends on a data plane that is fast, clean, and trustworthy, so that the agents downstream will genuinely behave smarter.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Information Services

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