Principal Software Engineer (Safeguards)

ClearVector; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClearVector is hiring a senior software engineer to design and ship reliable software in a fully remote, US-based team. You will build scalable backend and distributed systems, focusing on safety, correctness and graduating availability of code and content.

The ideal candidate has 12+ years shipping commercial software, strong knowledge of systems programming, and willingness to learn TypeScript or Rust, with hands-on experience in AWS, GCP, and modern DevOps tools.

Qualifications

• 12+ years shipping commercial software products.
• Experience designing and shipping software at scale.
• Proven ability to work asynchronously in a remote team.

Responsibilities

• Build systems for graduated availability of new code and content.
• Ensure reproducibility of outcomes across environments.
• Create frameworks for unit and integration tests.
• Support content developers to deploy content via the graduated system.

Skills

Systems programming

Distributed systems

Serverless architecture

Remote work

Startup experience

Learning TS/Rust

12+ yrs exp

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Auth0

TypeScript

Angular

Rust

GitHub Copilot

Claude

Job description

We're an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves to ensure that software does exactly what it’s supposed to do every time – and when it doesn’t, we know immediately.

You love ensuring properties of distributed systems are satisfied in simple ways that enable developers to ship relentlessly with high confidence that code will not impact customers in unexpected ways. Fundamentally, safeguards don't just protect - they empower speed by creating confidence to move faster.

Responsibilities

• Build systems that enable graduated availability of new code and content- build dev, test, pre-prod, and prod systems that gradually make new code or content available to wider sets of environments to increase safety, decrease risk, and increase predictability

• Build systems that enable reproducibility of outcomes- examples of this include automated methods to learn when operating system vendors or cloud service providers change - potentially impacting the runtime activity we observe

• Build simple, easy to use frameworks that enable developers to quickly write new unit and integration tests for new capabilities that enable the graduated availability system and reproducibility system

• Build systems that enable content developers to quickly write and deploy content using the graduated availability system and reproducibility system

Top candidates for this role will have:

• Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love

• Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale

• Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language

• Ability to learn Typescript or Rust

• Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience

• Experience working at a fast-growing startup

• Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently

• Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment

• Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, GCP, Azure, Auth0, TypeScript, Angular, PrimeNG, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude

• At least 12 years of experience

• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Additional notes

• As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States.

• We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas.

• Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events.