Principal Engineer

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Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, ESP
Hybrid
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Software
Empowering organizations with a single source of truth, through comprehensive asset visibility and actionable insights.
The Role
The Principal Engineer will provide architectural direction, mentor engineers, engage with stakeholders, and drive adoption of AI practices within the Lansweeper platform.
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PRINCIPAL ENGINEER
Alicante, Spain (hybrid)
We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to operate at the intersection of deep technical expertise and cross-functional leadership. This is not a people management role. It's for someone who has spent 10+ years building real intuition for how complex systems work - and who can now translate that into architectural direction, fast decisions, and meaningful influence across the organization.
You'll be a reference point for the team: someone engineers come to when they're stuck, someone who can engage with product and infrastructure discussions without needing to be briefed from scratch, and someone who is genuinely excited about where AI is taking the craft.
Team Info:
You will join an enthusiastic team of 40 engineers based in Spain (global engineering team is 120 people).

What you'll do

  • Set architectural direction for key areas of the Lansweeper platform
  • Act as a technical reference across engineering - and beyond, when needed
  • Engage with product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to shape what gets built and how
  • Drive adoption of AI-native ways of working across the team
  • Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the org
  • Identify and close gaps before they become problems
  • Collaborate with engineers across Alicante and internationally


What we're looking for (Key Requirements)

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a clear trajectory toward architecture and technical leadership
  • A CV that shows coordination across teams, architectural ownership, and field experience in infrastructure-heavy or IT-adjacent domains
  • Evidence of technical leadership - whether through a title, a pattern of cross-team influence, or both
  • AI fluency: you're already using it, probably building something with it on the side
  • An active GitHub or equivalent presence - we will look
  • Strong background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or backend engineering
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
  • Experience designing reliable and scalable systems in production
  • Practical experience using AI tools for coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation
  • Demonstrable comfort with AI-assisted development - we'll ask about your current workflow
  • Hands-on expertise running services on Kubernetes with GitHub-based CI/CD
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB

Soft Skills
We value engineers who:
  • Have opinions, you communicate them clearly, and you know how to build alignment without a formal mandate
  • Curious, self-directed, and passionate about building things - inside and outside of work
  • Learn new tools and technologies quickly
  • Think in systems rather than isolated components
  • Exposure to IT environments or enterprise software is a strong plus
  • Prefer simple solutions over unnecessary complexity
  • Take ownership of engineering quality and long-term maintainability
  • Combine human judgment with AI-driven acceleration to deliver high-quality software
  • Operate with a high degree of autonomy, especially when requirements are vague or evolving

    Our Offer:
  • Competitive salary according to industry benchmarks
  • Benefits: comprehensive health insurance, meal vouchers, pension plan, internet reimbursement
  • Career growth & learning opportunities within a fast scaling SaaS company
  • Flexibility in working hours and hybrid work options; 2 days a week in office
    Our Spanish branch is conveniently situated in the Isla de Corfu shopping center, located on Avenida Doctor Jiménez Díaz, 19, 1st floor, box 3, 03005, Alicante.
  • Engaging company culture with team events and international collaboration.
    Location Based in Alicante. We're open to candidates based in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain who can commit to regular presence in the office.

About Lansweeper:
Lansweeper is the AI Cyber Asset Intelligence platform helping IT and Security teams gain full visibility, reduce cyber risk, and scale automation with confidence.
In today's complex IT, OT, cloud, and IoT environments, fragmented asset data slows decisions and increases risk. We transform raw asset data into a continuously validated, trusted source of truth - so teams can move faster and act with certainty.
With Lansweeper, organizations can:
See - Truly complete visibility across hybrid environments
Know - Enriched asset intelligence with lifecycle and risk context
Act - Automate workflows, coordinate remediation, and enforce policy at scale
From universal asset discovery to AI-powered intelligence, we provide the shared foundation modern IT Operations, Cybersecurity, and Digital Transformation teams rely on.
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Skills Required

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Strong background in infrastructure, distributed systems, or backend engineering
  • Experience designing reliable and scalable systems in production
  • Hands-on expertise running services on Kubernetes
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
  • Evidence of technical leadership
  • Active GitHub or equivalent presence
  • AI fluency
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, APIs, and service-oriented architectures

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Lansweeper Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth PTO and personal days are described as generous for U.S. employees, with paid sick time and holidays included. Listings also note separate personal days alongside PTO, indicating ample time-away options.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is outlined for primary and secondary caregivers, with job-protected family leave referenced where eligible. These provisions signal strong support for caregiving and family needs.
  • Flexible Benefits Flexible scheduling, a hybrid model, and a home-office stipend are highlighted, alongside team offsites and an annual company-wide trip. Such flexibility expands how employees can use benefits across different work settings.

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The Company
HQ: Merelbeke
404 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Managing a technology estate has never been a bigger challenge. Hardware, software, and users can be anywhere at any time, making IT environments extremely dynamic and often complex. A seemingly simple question has become terribly difficult to answer: ‘Who is using what device?’ CIO's, CTO's, IT managers, ... have to make decisions that are often based on scattered, out of date, and incomplete data sources. How can you effectively manage the technology assets of an organization, if you’re not 100% sure of what assets you have to manage in the first place? This question inspired Lansweeper and still drives us today. We believe that answering it is crucial to tackle and simplify many of the challenges companies face every day. Centralized technology asset intelligence enables every stakeholder who needs insights into your company’s IT landscape to speak the same language.​ Connecting and centralizing asset data to collaborate across silos, locations, and departments is essential. Eliminate the blind spots from your environment and discover assets you didn't even know about. Lansweeper provides you the means to achieve complete visibility into your IT, centralized into one solution, helping you gain an in-depth understanding of your entire IT estate. Lansweeper creates a substantial reduction in the measure of time IT teams would ordinarily spend on routine, yet key assignments, such as network discovery, inventory, software distribution, licensing and updates. This task automation is critical for organizations with restricted staff and IT spending plans. Reveal needless expenses, support budgeting decisions, and manage your IT cost-effectively with Lansweeper The basic premise of good cybersecurity is that you can’t protect what you can’t see. So the critical first step when it comes to basic cyber hygiene is to maintain visibility of your IT environments and develop the relevant daily routines to inspect and verify.

Why Work With Us

We are on a mission. How about you? We don't over promise, We Deliver! We empower courageous and the adventurous. The eager to learn and the keen to grow. The inventive and the exceptional. The misfits and the perfect fits. Together, we're writing our visionary story of ambition, growth, and top-notch tech.

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