# Principal Software Engineer

Who we are DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com Job summary We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join our dynamic and innovative team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and secure backend services that power DigiCert’s next-generation trust and identity platforms. You will collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and UX teams to deliver high-quality software that delights our customers and meets enterprise-class performance, reliability, and security standards. This role is unable to provide visa sponsorship of any kind. What you will do Collaborate with product managers, UX designers and architects to understand project requirements an

- **Id**: 1099376
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/digicert-principal-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T20:02:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T23:54:06Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5668
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Equity, Parental leave, Professional development, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management, Digital Signature

## Company

- **Id**: 20716
- **Name**: Digicert
- **Domain**: digicert.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/digicert>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 190000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 190000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Gradle** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **JOOQ** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **MariaDB** — Optional: no
- **Maven** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **PKI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T21:03:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 4; Filings 12m: 4

## Liveness

- **Score**: 45
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.814
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 47
- **Expected fill days**: 42
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 190000
- **Is top pay**: no

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