RSA - Senior Principal Software Engineer - Cloud/Java

Location: Boston, MA (U.S. Citizen Required)
Domain: Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security

RSA provides trusted identity and access management for 12,000 organizations around the world, managing 25 million enterprise identities and providing secure, convenient access to millions of users. RSA specializes in empowering security-first organizations in financial services, healthcare, energy, technology services, and other industries to thrive in a digital world, delivering complete capabilities for modern authentication, access, lifecycle management, and identity governance. Whether in the cloud or on-premises, RSA connects people with the digital resources they depend on everywhere they live, work, and play.

For decades, RSA has pioneered many of the encryption, authentication, and identity federation technologies that still power the internet. And now RSA is transforming the industry yet again, paving the way for the future of digital identity through the RSA Unified Identity Platform; next-generation hybrid and cloud solutions; the first ever and only multi-functional, passwordless hardware authenticator; and a frictionless, mobile-optimized experience for the modern workforce. If you are self-motivated and looking for a fast-paced challenge doing something that truly matters, come join our winning team!  For more information, go to rsa.com.

RSA is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Principal Software Engineer to help architect and develop our hybrid cloud and mobile secure identity platform, RSA ID Plus. You will use state-of-the-art technologies and automation systems—along with your technical ingenuity—to design, build, and operate advanced SaaS solutions for enterprise security.

As part of the team responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating breakthrough features in our next-generation ID Plus Cloud Access Service, you’ll contribute directly to how our customers securely access and protect their digital environments.

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

Experience & Required Skills:

• 15+ years of experience developing object-oriented software with deep expertise in Java.
• Proven technical leadership across large-scale software development efforts.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and testing cloud-native services and applications.
• Proven experience in the full development lifecycle of at least one enterprise-scale SaaS product.
• Strong understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Ability to diagnose and solve complex performance and scalability issues in distributed systems.
• Knowledge of data storage strategies, including analysis of trade-offs between SQL, NoSQL, and caching options.
• Deep understanding of SaaS operations—including observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response—to ensure service uptime and reliability.
• Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, and other operational metrics used to measure service health.
• Demonstrated experience with secure coding practices, threat modeling, and data protection.
• Understanding of identity and access management standards such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and release automation for cloud-hosted services.
• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AKS).
• Enthusiasm for ensuring comprehensive automated test coverage for all deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead design discussions and influence technical direction.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and promote best practices across teams.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and distributed team environment.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

Preferred Experience:

• Background in computer and network security, particularly in Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Experience with Azure and/or AWS development and deployment.
• Familiarity with relational (SQL Server, MySQL) and NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and Selenium.
• Proficiency in Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
• Experience integrating with directories such as Active Directory or OpenLDAP.
• Experience using Redis or other in-memory caching solutions.
• Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks (React, Angular, or similar).
• Familiarity with build and integration tools (IntelliJ, Gradle, Jenkins, Git/GitHub).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) for deployment automation.
• Experience with Agile development processes and team collaboration tools (JIRA, Confluence).

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field required; a Master’s degree is preferred.

RSA is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RSA are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. RSA will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. All RSA employees are expected to support this policy and contribute to an environment of equal opportunity.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact rsa.global.talent.acquisition@rsa.com. All employees must be legally authorized to work in the US. RSA and its approved consultants will never ask you for a fee to process or consider your application for a career with RSA. RSA reserves the right to amend or withdraw any job posting at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.

RSA employees are eligible to participate in company-sponsored contributory health and welfare and 401(k) benefit plan.

Non-commission RSA employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses.

Pay Range: 155k - 260k