Principal Engineer (worldwide remote, work anywhere)

TuxCare offers a comprehensive portfolio of security solutions for Linux and open-source software designed for enterprise organizations. One of TuxCare’s key products is Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS), which enables organizations to securely continue using Linux distributions and software languages that have reached end of life or no longer receive standard security updates. ELS delivers vulnerability patches for unsupported versions of CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle Linux, as well as for runtimes and frameworks such as PHP, Python, Spring, Angular/AngularJS, Django, and Flask.

Must have:

• 8+ years in software engineering, with recent daily Python coding
• Strong GitLab CI / GitHub workflows (runners, pipelines)
• Solid Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, networking, packaging)
• Comfortable with observability (logs, metrics, monitoring, alerting)
• Advanced use of LLM/AI tools to speed up coding, refactoring, debugging, and tests, and validates outputs to production quality
• Product ownership mindset: can own a tool end-to-end, build/prioritize a roadmap, and translate ambiguous requirements into deliverables
• Comfortable working in a fast-changing, high-ambiguity environment; able to iterate quickly and adapt priorities
• Startup and/or “builder” experience: has shipped own projects or worked in a startup-like setting with end-to-end responsibility
• Strong English communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Engineering:

• Write production Python code (services, CLI tools, automation)
• Build and maintain CI/CD on GitLab
• Prototype quickly and turn successful experiments into production-ready solutions
• Improve reliability and operability (logging, metrics, monitoring/alerting)

AI-Assisted Development:

• Actively use modern AI tools daily to accelerate coding, refactoring, debugging, testing, and documentation while validating outputs, catching edge cases, and shipping production-quality code.

Product Owner:

• Own the vision and roadmap for ELS Automation tools; prioritize by impact/risk/effort
• Translate business needs into deliverables (plans, user stories, acceptance criteria, success metrics)
• Be the primary stakeholder interface: align requirements across engineering/release/ops and communicate trade-offs
• Drive outcomes: incident coordination when needed, post-mortems, and continuous improvements

• A focus on professional development
• Interesting and challenging projects
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, allowing scheduling the day and working from any location worldwide
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves
• Compensation for private medical insurance
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement
• Budget for education
• Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent

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