Principal Software Engineer at Always Further

Always Further - Agent Security Tooling

Always Further, founded by the team behind sigstore.dev, which is used to secure npm, pypi, brew, and provides attestations for GitHub releases, NVIDIA, and Google for AI model signing, is building nono.sh agent security tooling.

Principal Software Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join as a founding engineer. You'll work directly with the founders to build the core of our agent security runtime. This is a high-autonomy role - you'll shape architecture, engage with early customers, and make the trade-offs that define the product.

About the Role:

You will build the layer between agentic reasoning and system execution — intercepting, classifying, and validating every agent intent against security policy before it runs.

Responsibilities:

• Design systems that capture and cryptographically verify every instruction and action, maintaining ground truth in environments prone to hallucination and injection.
• Architect fine-grained, time-scoped primitives that allow least-privilege permissions, with the ability to escalate under controlled, auditable conditions.
• Work with research to stress-test our security primitives at scale.
• Turn emerging threat vectors (prompt injection, tool misuse, privilege escalation) into adaptive defenses.

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Staff Solutions Engineer

We're looking for a Solutions Engineer to join as a founding engineer and to sit at the intersection of our open-source community and our growing base of enterprise design partners. You'll spend your time contributing to Nono, helping shape its architecture, and working directly with customers who are integrating it into proof-of-concept and pilot programs. This is a hands-on role - early on you'll be deep in the code, reviewing pull requests, triaging issues, and experimenting with deployment architectures, all while being a trusted technical voice for both community members and enterprise stakeholders. Over time, the role will evolve toward solutions architecture and customer-facing engagement, as you build the domain expertise and relationships that make you the go-to person for designing how Nono fits into complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute directly to the Nono open-source project - code, documentation, and architectural proposals.
• Experiment with different deployment architectures for Nono across cloud environments, on-premise infrastructure, and hybrid setups and share your findings with others at Always Further, and often with the community, via our blogging platforms or YouTube channel.
• Work closely with early design partners to integrate Nono into proof-of-concept and pilot programs, gathering feedback and translating it into engineering priorities.
• Produce technical content - blog posts, architecture guides, demos.