Principal Engineer-Platform

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For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. About the Team The Clumio Platform team designs, builds, and operates the core SaaS platform that underpins all Clumio data protection solutions, as well as industry’s first data protection solution for Apache Iceberg on AWS. For many customers, backup is not a “nice-to-have” capability, but a foundational requirement driven by compliance, audit, and security mandates. In these environments, recovery performance, cost efficiency, and reliable operation at scale are key differentiators. The platform is designed to protect, back up, and recover large volumes of cloud data using a cloud-native architecture. The control and management plane scales dynamically based on workload characteristics such as the number of protected assets and the volume of events processed. A shared platform abstracts complexity from the underlying data management layer, enabling a consistent and seamless experience across supported data sources. Beyond core backup and recovery, the platform provides essential non-backup capabilities including customer onboarding, metering and billing, reporting, alerting, and machine-learning-driven insights that enable customers to make smarter, cost-effective decisions about data protection. The team operates a mature, production-proven platform on AWS and is actively expanding into multi-cloud data protection across GCP and Azure. Role Overview As a Senior Principal Engineer on the Clumio Platform team, you are a senior technical authority for platform correctness, durability, and scale guarantees, reporting to the Engineering Director. This role operates at a company-critical scope, combining deep hands-on engineering with product-wide technical leadership and multi-year architectural ownership over systems that directly underpin customer trust, compliance, and business credibility. You define and drive the long-term technical and product-facing vision for the control and management plane across the Clumio platform, spanning core critical components like backup and restore triggers, resource and task management, billing, metering, onboarding, reporting, alerting, AI feature sets, and failure handling across multiple cloud environments. You are responsible not only for the architectural integrity of these systems, but also for helping translate ambiguous customer, business, and product needs into clear technical strategy and execution plans. You work closely with the Engineering Director and Product leadership to shape roadmaps, sequence major initiatives, and ensure technical investments align with long-term product goals. You lead the organization's complex, high-risk, and ambiguous initiatives—projects where requirements are few, problem boundaries are unclear, and tradeoffs have significant customer and business impact. This includes defining problem spaces, driving cross-functional alignment, designing systems with provable correctness, rigorously analyzing failure modes and recovery paths, and setting technical standards that ensure durability, security, and recoverability at scale. While remaining deeply hands-on, you operate at a broader organizational scope than other individual contributors. You mentor Principal Engineers and senior technical leaders, guide teams through ambiguous design spaces, and serve as the escalation point for the most critical architectural and product-impacting decisions. You partner closely with Product, Customer Success, Security, Compliance, and executive leadership to ensure data protection architecture, roadmaps, and delivery plans reflect real-world customer requirements, regulatory obligations, and operational realities. In this role, you are not only building systems—you are helping define the data protection capabilities Clumio brings to market for its customers. Basic Qualifications 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of complex production systems. Proven experience leading ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives from problem definition through production delivery. Strong ability to translate business, customer, and operational needs into clear technical requirements and system designs. Deep experience designing and evolving distributed or cloud-native systems with a strong focus on correctness, operability, and cost efficiency. Demonstrated ability to make and drive critical technical decisions with broad system impact and to communicate trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Working knowledge of English. Preferred Qualifications 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. Background