Backend — Principal Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Principal Engineer on the Clumio team at Commvault, you will step into a pivotal technical leadership role, driving the evolution and integrity of our cloud-native data protection platform's control and management plane.
• • This is a unique opportunity to blend deep, hands-on engineering with strategic architectural vision, shaping the very foundation upon which our customers rely for robust data protection and rapid recovery.
• • You will be instrumental in designing, building, and operating the core backend systems that underpin Clumio's sophisticated data protection capabilities, ensuring resilience, security, and efficiency at scale.
• • The Clumio Backend team is at the forefront of developing solutions for environments where data protection is not merely a feature, but a critical, non-negotiable requirement driven by stringent compliance, audit, and security mandates.
• • Your work will directly impact our ability to deliver exceptional recovery performance, optimize cost-efficiency, enforce strong governance, and ensure reliable operation for our enterprise clients.
• • You will be responsible for architecting and developing shared services and well-defined interfaces that abstract underlying system complexities, enabling consistent, reliable, and scalable interactions across the entire platform.
• • This role involves actively contributing to the platform's continuous evolution, facilitating the seamless and secure integration of new capabilities, data sources, and workflows.
• • Beyond core data protection functionalities, you will play a key role in enabling essential SaaS capabilities, including sophisticated lifecycle management, comprehensive observability, insightful usage and cost analytics, and intelligent data insights that empower effective operational decision-making for our customers.
• • You will collaborate closely with product management, frontend engineering, infrastructure teams, quality assurance, and customer-facing departments to ensure our backend systems meet the highest standards of reliability, scalability, and operability.
• • A significant aspect of your role will be to own and drive cross-cutting technical initiatives that extend across multiple services, defining and implementing core platform capabilities within shared services like control planes, policy management, and operational services.
• • This includes making critical architectural decisions, carefully balancing system correctness, cost-effectiveness, scalability, and operational simplicity, and leading complex projects from initial design through to successful production rollout.
• • You will be expected to set the technical direction for your areas of ownership, ensuring that architectural blueprints are translated into high-quality, robust production systems.
• • While providing technical leadership, you will remain deeply hands-on, dedicating substantial time to writing and reviewing code, tackling intricate technical challenges, and actively participating in production operations and incident response.
• • You will foster strong partnerships with Senior Engineers, Product Managers, and Customer Success teams, guiding technical designs, integrating valuable operational and customer feedback, and establishing best-practice technical patterns that enable the platform to scale and adapt across diverse cloud environments.
• • Your contributions will be vital in translating business objectives and customer needs into clear, actionable technical designs, well-defined APIs, and robust system architectures.
• • You will be a champion for designing, building, and evolving distributed, cloud-native systems, with a keen focus on correctness, scalability, operability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• • Taking ownership of non-trivial production systems will involve diagnosing real-world issues, proactively enhancing system reliability, and iterating based on operational feedback and performance metrics.
• • You will be adept at making high-impact architectural decisions, thoroughly evaluating trade-offs, and articulating these decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• • Your collaborative spirit and self-driven nature will be essential, fostering a strong sense of shared ownership and enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams, promoting open communication and alignment across different time zones.
• • Experience in security and SaaS environments will be highly valued, contributing to the overall robustness and marketability of our platform.
• • This role offers the chance to make a significant impact on a leading cyber resilience platform, contributing to its continued innovation and success in protecting critical data for organizations worldwide.