Backend - Principal Engineer

The Opportunity

We have an outstanding career opportunity for Backend- Principal Engineer at Bangalore location. As a Principal Engineer on the Clumio team, you serve as a technical leader in the control and management plane of the cloud-native data protection platform. Reporting to the Engineering Director, this role combines hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, shaping systems that are foundational to customer data protection and recovery.

What you’ll do…

• You own and drive cross-cutting technical initiatives that span multiple services and define core platform capabilities across shared services such as control planes, policy management, and operational services.
• This includes designing and evolving platform abstractions, making architectural decisions that balance correctness, cost, scalability, and operational simplicity, and leading the execution of complex projects from design through production rollout.
• You are responsible for setting technical direction and ensuring that architectural decisions are realized in high-quality production systems.
• You remain deeply hands-on, spending significant time writing and reviewing code, solving complex technical problems, and participating in production operations.
• You work closely with Senior Engineers, Product, and Customer Success teams to guide designs, incorporate operational and customer feedback, and establish technical patterns that allow the platform to scale and evolve across multiple cloud environments.

Who you are…

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of complex, production backend or platform systems from design through operation.
• Experience in at least one modern programming language such as Go (Preferred), Python, Java, or Rust.
• Experience leading ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives, driving solutions from problem definition to production delivery.
• Strong ability to translate business, customer, and operational requirements into clear technical designs, APIs, and system architectures.
• Experience in designing, building, and evolving distributed, cloud-native systems, with emphasis on correctness, scalability, operability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Ownership of non-trivial production systems, including diagnosing real-world issues, improving reliability, and iterating based on operational feedback.
• Experience making high-impact architectural decisions, evaluating trade-offs, and clearly communicating them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative and self-driven, with a strong sense of shared ownership, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, fostering open communication and alignment across time zones.

You’ll love working here because:

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Annual health check-ups, Car lease Program, and Tuition Reimbursement
• An inclusive company culture, an opportunity to join our Community Guilds
• Personal accident cover and Term life cover

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!