You are in the best possible position and have the ability to craft your career any way you would like.

Your technical skills could command a high salary at a fairly stable company that would provide ample time for extracurricular philosophizing.

You could apply philosophical principles to starting a company. It all depends on what areas interest you.

You could also go the academic route and pursue those ideas in the comfort of the academy.

Personally, I think technical skills free people to apply philosophy. Capitalism and open markets allow you to build whatever you like and test it with your peers. Like I said at the beginning, technical skills allow you to do anything you can imagine. Good luck.

Just decide who you would be and then do what you must do:)