Principal Engineer — Software Supply Chain Trust

nineDots.io; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

nineDots.io in Ireland is seeking a Principal Engineer to tackle how the world decides what software can be trusted. You’ll design and build large-scale systems for software supply chain trust, provenance, and governance.

You’ll influence technical strategy, shape foundational architecture across distributed systems, security, and data infrastructure, and work on problems with no ready-made playbooks.

Qualifications

• Experience designing large-scale security intelligence pipelines.
• Proven ability to shape architecture for security, governance and trust.
• Leadership experience in distributed systems and platform engineering across large teams.

Responsibilities

• Influence technical strategy across the organisation.
• Shape foundational architecture for enterprise-scale systems.
• Work on problems without an existing playbook and drive practical solutions.

Skills

Distributed Systems

Platform Engineering

Security

Data Infrastructure

Technical Strategy

Job description

What if your next role was about helping define how the world decides what software can be trusted?

As a Principal Engineer, you'll tackle one of the most important and least-solved problems in modern technology: software supply chain trust.

Every day, millions of packages, containers, dependencies, and binaries move through software delivery pipelines. Most organisations have limited visibility into where they came from, whether they're secure, or whether they should be allowed into production.

You'll help build the systems that answer those questions.

• Think large-scale security intelligence pipelines ingesting and correlating vulnerability, provenance, and trust data from across the software ecosystem.
• Think policy engines capable of making real-time decisions on millions of software artifacts.
• Think designing the architecture behind software trust, compliance, and governance for engineering organisations operating at enterprise scale.

This is a role for engineers who enjoy operating at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, security, and data infrastructure. You'll influence technical strategy across the organisation, shape foundational architecture, and work on problems where there isn't an accepted playbook yet.

• The technology is interesting.
• The scale is real.
• But the opportunity is bigger than either.

The software industry is moving toward a future where every artifact, package, container, AI-generated component, and dependency needs to be verified, governed, and trusted before it reaches production.

You'll help build the infrastructure that makes that possible. If you're a Principal Engineer who wants to work on a problem that will matter even more five years from now than it does today, let's talk.

Build the infrastructure that decides what software the world can trust.