Principal Engineer - Backend

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About the Position

We are looking for a Principal Engineer - Backend to join our Clumio backend team. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with broad architectural ownership, shaping systems that are foundational to customer trust and recovery guarantees.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior technical leader across the data protection platform.
• Define and drive the long-term technical vision and cross-cutting initiatives.
• Design and evolve system abstractions, making high-impact architectural decisions.
• Lead the most complex and ambiguous technical initiatives from design through production rollout.
• Set technical direction and standards that ensure consistency across teams and systems.
• Collaborate with Senior and Junior Engineers, Cloud Engineering, Quality Engineering, Product, and Customer Success.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of complex production systems.
• Experience leading ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from problem definition through production delivery.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business, customer, and operational needs into platform-wide technical strategy and system designs.
• Experience designing and evolving distributed or cloud-native systems with a focus on correctness, operability, and cost efficiency.
• Experience making high-impact architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of English.

Nice to Have

• Experience serving as the senior technical owner for a team or platform while remaining hands-on.
• Experience designing systems that span multiple services or cloud environments, including defining common abstractions and patterns.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience in data management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, or related data protection domains.
• Experience with platform capabilities such as reporting, alerting, metering, billing, task orchestration, audit logging, policy management, or AI/ML.
• Experience designing secure systems, including authorization, encryption, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical direction in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.

We Offer

• Collaborate with amazing, driven, and supportive team members.
• Enjoy continuous professional growth through product training, development programs, and clear career pathways.
• Work on high-impact, large-scale cloud data protection systems used by global enterprises.
• Thrive in an inclusive, open culture with opportunities to connect through our community groups.
• Take advantage of generous global benefits tailored to support your well-being.
• Receive competitive compensation that reflects your impact.
• Share in our success through our Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

About the Company

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) delivers continuous recovery for the AI era. We help organizations stay ready for constant disruption by returning critical data, applications, identities, and AI systems to a clean, trusted state. Our purpose-built recovery solutions span cloud-native and hybrid environments, leveraging AI to enable resilience at enterprise scale.

Commvault is an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are always committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status and we will not discriminate against on the basis of such characteristics or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we work.

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