Alicante, Spain (Hybrid 2-3 days in office required
Context & Impact
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.
AI Fluency
At Lansweeper, we are building an AI-native engineering culture. We expect all engineers to actively use AI tools to enhance productivity and quality across the software development lifecycle, including coding, testing, documentation, and system design. Candidates should be comfortable working with AI-assisted workflows and continuously evolving their approach as tools and practices advance.
Challenge
The main challenges you'll face are:
- Driving architectural clarity across a distributed systems platform built in Go and Rust
- Balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability in an AI-augmented development environment
- Influencing technical direction across teams without formal authority
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 organization
- Identify and close gaps before they become problems
- Collaborate with engineers across Alicante and internationally
What we're looking for (Key Requirements)
Hard Skills
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a clear trajectory toward architecture and technical leadership
- Strong experience building distributed systems in Go and/or Rust in production environments
- Primary languages: Go and/or Rust (required)
- Deep understanding of data modeling, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
- Experience designing reliable and scalable systems in production
- Hands-on expertise running services on Kubernetes with GitHub-based CI/CD
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Practical experience using AI tools for coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation
- Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction across teams
Soft Skills
- Have opinions, communicate them clearly, and 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
- 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
AI Specific Skills
Lansweeper is an AI-native company. In this role, you are expected to actively use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, code assistants, and agent-based workflows as part of your daily engineering practice. You should be comfortable guiding AI tools, validating outputs, and integrating AI into engineering workflows to improve speed and quality while maintaining production-grade standards.
Our Offer
- Salary: €60,368 - €98,099 gross per year
- Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, meal vouchers, pension plan, internet reimbursement
- Career growth and learning opportunities within a fast-scaling SaaS company
- Flexibility in working hours and hybrid work options
- Company events and international collaboration
Pay Transparency
- At Lansweeper, every role is assigned to a level defined by three things: the expertise it requires, the complexity it involves, and the scope of impact it carries.
- Each level maps to a salary band based on salary benchmarks from the Software/SaaS industry of your country, so your pay reflects what the market pays for comparable roles.
- The gross salary range for this role is €60,368 - €98,099 (EUR) (Spain) (based on full-time employment).
- Where you land within that range depends on the expertise you bring, the complexity you have navigated, the scope of impact you have owned, and your track record of delivering results in comparable roles - the same criteria applied consistently to every candidate.
We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, religion, ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation, or disability
How AI is used during Hiring Process
We use AI to support and not replace during the hiring process. HR decisions are made by our talent acquisition team. You can request more info at any time via [email protected]
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 - 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.
Diversity Statement
It is Lansweeper's policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees.
Lansweeper disapproves of, and will not tolerate, unlawful discrimination against any applicant or employee because of race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, age, religion, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by local, state, or federal laws.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering with trajectory toward architecture and technical leadership
- Strong experience building distributed systems in Go and/or Rust in production environments
- Primary languages: Go and/or Rust
- Deep understanding of data modeling, APIs, and service-oriented architectures
- Experience designing reliable and scalable systems in production
- Hands-on expertise running services on Kubernetes with GitHub-based CI/CD
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Practical experience using AI tools for coding, refactoring, testing, and documentation
- Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction across teams
What the Team is Saying
Lansweeper Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO for U.S. employees is presented as four weeks plus three personal days, alongside paid holidays, sick time, and bereavement leave. This is paired with flexible, hybrid scheduling to support time away and balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as up to 16 weeks for a primary caregiver and four weeks for a secondary caregiver, with FMLA coverage referenced. These provisions indicate meaningful support during family events.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. materials describe comprehensive medical coverage with HRA support, plus dental, vision, mental‑health benefits, and FSA availability. This breadth suggests strong core health protection.
Lansweeper Insights
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
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