Principal Software Engineer, Secrets & DevSecOps Lead

PNC; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 112,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

PNC is seeking a Software Engineer Principal to lead an in-house secrets scanning and remediation platform. The role spans reliability, CI/CD integrations, self-service remediation, reporting, and expansion of the platform to support growing adoption.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with security innovation and DevSecOps, and ensure the platform aligns with enterprise needs while maintaining production stability across diverse environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering or platform engineering experience preferred.
• 3+ years supporting production applications or microservice platforms in an enterprise environment preferred.
• Experience owning build and run responsibilities for a business-critical or security-sensitive application.

Responsibilities

• Own production support for an in-house secrets scanning and remediation application, including availability, incident troubleshooting, release coordination, patching, monitoring, and operational hygiene.
• Maintain and enhance integrations with CI/CD and source control platforms (Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise).
• Support scanning and enforcement workflows that help development teams identify, track, and remediate hardcoded credentials in source code.
• Build and improve self-service remediation portals for users to review findings, validate results, and drive compliance at enterprise scale.
• Maintain active services and supporting infrastructure across Linux, Windows, containers, and databases.
• Improve reporting data used to track scan results, remediation progress, compliance status, and platform adoption.
• Troubleshoot data quality, service performance, failed jobs, and integration issues across the stack.
• Partner with security innovation, DevSecOps, and application teams to prioritize backlog and align with enterprise needs.
• Support ongoing improvements to platform reliability, automation, user experience, and operational support processes.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Lead engineer experience

Self-service tools

DevSecOps security

Automation and monitoring

Cloud/hybrid platforms

Tools

Bitbucket

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Job description

PNC is seeking a Software Engineer Principal to lead an in-house secrets scanning and remediation platform. The role spans reliability, CI/CD integrations, self-service remediation, reporting, and expansion of the platform to support growing adoption.

You will mentor teams, collaborate with security innovation and DevSecOps, and ensure the platform aligns with enterprise needs while maintaining production stability across diverse environments.