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Staff Engineer (remote work)

$80,000 – $130,000estimatedRemoteFull-timeSeniorBulgariaDevelopment
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About the role

The role combines deep technical execution with technical product ownership and is approximately 70% hands-on software engineering and 30% technical product ownership. You will lead significant product components and workstreams end-to-end: clarifying requirements with stakeholders, defining milestones, designing solutions, contributing production code, delivering functionality to customers, and ensuring its continued reliability in production. This is an individual contributor role, not a people-management position. We are looking for someone who can operate autonomously, navigate ambiguity, and drive complex initiatives forward without relying on a manager to define every next step. As the product and priorities evolve, curiosity, adaptability, and a broad interest in the cybersecurity area will be important for success in this role.

What you'll do

  • Own major product components and workstreams throughout their full lifecycle, from initial discovery and planning to production release and ongoing improvement.
  • Work directly with engineering, product, sales, and other stakeholders to understand, gather, and clarify business and technical requirements.
  • Translate broad product goals into technical plans, milestones, and actionable engineering tasks.
  • Design scalable system architecture and make technical decisions for high-impact product areas.
  • Build, review, and maintain production-grade components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
  • Take responsibility for delivered components in production and their continued operation and evolution.
  • Independently track progress and proactively communicate results, blockers, risks, dependencies, and changing requirements.
  • Research relevant technologies, tools, market approaches, and competitor solutions when needed.
  • Contribute to engineering quality through design reviews, technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools as part of the regular engineering workflow for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, automation, and code review.

Requirements

  • Proven experience owning major projects, products, systems, or workstreams end-to-end.
  • Strong hands-on Python development experience.
  • Strong hands-on Linux experience and confidence working with Linux-based production environments.
  • Strong system design and architectural thinking, combined with the ability to implement proposed solutions hands-on.
  • Demonstrated experience building substantial systems or features and taking them through production release.
  • Experience gathering and refining requirements and turning broad needs into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Strong technical product ownership and an understanding of how engineering decisions support broader product and business goals.
  • Ability to work independently without close day-to-day supervision.
  • Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with engineering teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Ability to clearly explain technical decisions, trade-offs, progress, risks, dependencies, and blockers.
  • Regular use of AI-assisted development tools for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, automation, or code review.
  • AI should be part of the development workflow rather than used only for occasional experimentation.
  • Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, reliability, maintainability, and extensibility.
  • Curiosity, adaptability, and an interest in cybersecurity and complex technical problems.
  • Advanced written and spoken English.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with CVEs, vulnerability management, or security-related engineering workflows.
  • Understanding of commercial processes and how technical decisions can support product and business objectives.

Benefits

  • Stay hands-on technically while owning complex, high-impact engineering work.
  • Work on challenging Linux, automation, and cybersecurity problems across mature and newer products.
  • Influence technical direction and make meaningful architectural decisions.
  • Work independently with a high level of ownership and autonomy.
  • Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
  • 24 paid vacation days, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
  • Private medical insurance compensation.
  • Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
  • Education budget.
  • Opportunity to receive a reward for innovative ideas that the company can patent.

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