# Principal Software Engineer

Description Curious about what it’s like to work at Cognyte? At Cognyte, you’ll help build our Decision Intelligence product, bringing Nexyte capabilities to real-world impact. You'll be part of building unique solutions shaped by real investigative methodologies, enabling customers to identify, investigate, visualize, and prevent criminal, terror, and security threats worldwide. Our solutions help organizations transform massive, diverse data into clear, actionable intelligence for a safer world. We work with a startup mindset, moving fast, owning outcomes, and creating technology that helps make the world safer. As a Cognyter you will: Design, develop, and deploy scalable microservices that handle and analyze massive amounts of data in distributed environments, with a strong focus on high availability, low latency, performance, resilience, and scalability. Shape the architecture of a hybrid-cloud, to build a multi-tenant SaaS product, influencing key technical decisions across cloud, on-prem, data, security, and operational domains. Lead complex technical initiatives end to end - from discovery and design through implementation, production readiness, and long-term evolution. Part

- **Id**: 4133938
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cognyte-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Herzliya, Israel
- **Countries**: IL
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T05:21:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T03:19:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3013
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Law Enforcement, Threat Intelligence, Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 49207
- **Name**: Cognyte
- **Domain**: cognyte.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cognyte>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Israel** — Iso: IL; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T03:19:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T04:51:58Z

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