Context & Impact
Lansweeper is growing its engineering capability with a newly created Principal Software Engineer role focused on AI-native platform development across IT, OT, and Cybersecurity domains. Principal_Softw...Austin.pdf
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will help design and build the next generation of intelligent platforms, systems, and frameworks that combine modern distributed systems engineering with foundational AI and machine learning technologies. Your work will directly shape how Lansweeper delivers advanced visibility, automation, analysis, and orchestration capabilities across enterprise infrastructure, industrial environments, networks, and security ecosystems.
This is a full-time, hybrid role based in Austin, Texas, with 2 days onsite per week.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance software platforms and services for IT, OT, and cybersecurity environments
- Develop AI-native capabilities for visibility, automation, analysis, orchestration, and operational intelligence across enterprise and industrial ecosystems
- Build scalable backend systems, distributed services, data pipelines, and real-time processing frameworks
- Work on technologies involving network discovery, protocol analysis, telemetry, asset intelligence, and security analytics
- Integrate foundational LLM and machine learning technologies into operational and engineering workflows
- Drive adoption of modern AI engineering methodologies and AI-assisted software development practices across the engineering
- Mentor engineers and contribute to architectural direction, technical standards, and engineering best practices
Key Requirements
Hard Skills:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong programming expertise in C++, Go, or Rust
- Proven experience building distributed systems, backend platforms, or infrastructure software at scale
- Strong understanding of modern software architecture, concurrency, scalability, and systems performance
- Practical understanding of foundational LLM and Machine Learning concepts and how they apply to production systems
- Experience working with AI-assisted engineering workflows and modern developer productivity tooling
Preferred / Nice to Have:
- Experience with network-related technologies, protocols, and enterprise IT or OT environments
- Experience with cybersecurity analysis tools, frameworks, SIEM, EDR, or threat intelligence systems
- Cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes ecosystems, streaming systems, or observability frameworks
- Exposure to vector databases, RAG architectures, or AI inference systems
- Contributions to open-source projects or developer ecosystems
Soft Skills:
- Deep technical curiosity and systems thinking with a pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong ownership mindset and engineering craftsmanship
- Collaborative approach with a genuine passion for mentoring and growing other engineers
AI Specific Skills
Lansweeper is an AI-native company currently undergoing a company-wide AI transformation across all departments and engineering functions. In this Principal Software Engineer role, you are expected to actively embrace and apply AI-assisted development tools and LLM-based workflows as part of your day-to-day engineering practice. Comfort working in an AI-native engineering environment - and a genuine passion for pushing the boundaries of what AI-assisted software development can deliver - is a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Our Offer
- Competitive compensation aligned with industry benchmarks
- Career growth and learning opportunities within a fast-scaling SaaS company
- Flexibility in working hours
- Hybrid working model - 2 days onsite per week in Austin, Texas
- Engaging company culture with team events and international collaboration
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.
Our culture - built on four core values:
- One Team - United across boundaries
- We Care - Customers and people at the center
- We Grow - Learning, sharing, improving
- We Deliver - Focusing on what truly matters
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.
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.
AI Usage 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]
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 professional software engineering experience
- Strong programming expertise in C++, Go, or Rust
- Proven experience building distributed systems, backend platforms, or infrastructure software at scale
- Strong understanding of software architecture, concurrency, scalability, and systems performance
- Practical understanding of foundational LLM and Machine Learning concepts applied to production systems
- Experience with AI-assisted engineering workflows and modern developer productivity tooling
- Comfort working in an AI-native engineering environment and actively using LLM-based development workflows
What the Team is Saying
Lansweeper Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
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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.
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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.
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
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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