Principal Software Engineer - AI

Opportunity Overview

At ZeroFox, we are passionate about bringing world-class protection to the digital-first world. Together, we have built a system capable of collecting and analyzing data from all over the internet, creating a paradigm-shifting cybersecurity product that helps secure and protect our customers and improves the global threat landscape.

We are a team of software engineers, cybersecurity experts, and data scientists who continue to develop unparalleled solutions for the cyber security industry by providing the best Digital Risk Protection SaaS in the global market. Our company, services, and user base are growing faster than ever and we’d like you to help us innovate. We believe the greatest solutions in the Digital Risk Protection space come from composing teams with varied backgrounds and experiences that can use their complementary skill sets to come up with the best market-defining solutions.

Along the way, you’ll expand your potential with constant opportunities to learn and grow alongside exceptionally knowledgeable, competent, and collaborative people.

If you want to be part of a group of talented, empathic individuals with a multitude of different backgrounds, who are committed to each other and to the overall success of the team and our customers, we want to hear from you! At ZeroFox, soft skills are just as important as technical ability!

Role and responsibilities 

• Architect and drive implementation of major platform initiatives that span multiple subsystems and impact multiple teams
• Own and enhance core infrastructure components, including establishing quality standards, operational excellence, and comprehensive monitoring strategies
• Lead technical discovery and implementation of new technologies that advance our entire engineering organization
• Serve as a key technical advisor across teams, mentoring Technical Leads and Scrum Masters while facilitating cross-team collaboration
• Shape and improve department-wide engineering processes and practices, driving adoption of best practices across teams

Required qualifications and skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, OR equivalent education or experience
• 8+ years of software development experience, including significant time leading complex technical initiatives
• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture, with demonstrated success in designing and implementing large-scale platform changes
• Deep expertise in working with large-scale data (storage, transit, schemas)
• Proven track record of owning critical production systems and establishing robust operational practices
• Outstanding ability to influence and drive consensus across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Ability to quickly learn the essentials of unfamiliar technical disciplines (e.g. machine learning)
• Good communication, collaboration, and presentation skills in English
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment.
  

Desired qualifications and skills

• Experience establishing technical standards and patterns that have been widely adopted across engineering organizations
• Track record of successfully mentoring technical leaders and driving engineering excellence at scale
• Deep expertise in multiple programming languages and modern architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven systems)
• Strong background in operational excellence, including monitoring, observability, and reliability engineering
• History of contributing to and improving engineering processes that impact entire departments
• Experience collaborating closely with machine learning engineers / data scientists to enable, accelerate and leverage their output

• Opportunities to learn and contribute your knowledge to our Digital Risk Protection platform
• Competitive compensation
• Competitive PTO
• Complementary health insurance
• Daily catered lunches for in-office work
• Respectful and nourishing work environment, where every opinion is heard and everyone is encouraged to be an active part of the organizational culture.
• Regular team bonding activities like cooking and cocktails classes, bingos, stand up comedy, magic shows, virtual happy hour, lunch and learns, etc.
• Additional Parental Leave
• Excellent communication: between teams, people, organizations and leaders

About us

ZeroFox is on a mission to make the internet safer for all. Innovation is at our core – we are relentless in the pursuit of finding new ways to disrupt external cyber threats on the surface, deep, and dark web. ZeroFox offers the only unified cybersecurity platform combining advanced AI analytics, digital risk and privacy protection, full-spectrum threat intelligence, and a robust portfolio of breach, incident and takedown response capabilities to protect customers from growing threats across the external attack surface. It’s a great time to join us in the Fox Den – with fresh private equity funding, expanding investments in AI, a people-first culture, and centers of excellence around the world, we’re growing like never before. If you’re looking for a mission-oriented, customer-focused, collaborative team and ready to take the fight to the adversary, apply to join us in the Den today.

Equal Opportunity

We aim to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We embrace inclusion and ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other personal characteristic.