Principal Software Engineer – Next-Generation API & AI Platform Architecture

SpyCloud seeks a Principal Engineer to lead hands-on architecture and development of next-generation data and intelligence APIs. This role involves defining API contracts, building production services, and architecting platform interfaces for high-performance throughput, agentic workflows, and external customer integrations. The engineer will operate at the intersection of distributed systems, data platforms, and agentic orchestration, ensuring scalable, governed, observable APIs. Requires deep,

10+ years building distributed systems/APIs; deep experience designing customer-facing APIs; schema governance; productionizing ML models; agentic workflows; service layers on systems of record; distributed systems reliability; proficiency in Go & Python; experience with Databricks/Snowflake; AWS infrastructure.