About the Team

The Clumio Data Protection team designs and operates cloud-native systems that protect and recover large volumes of enterprise cloud data. For many customers, backup is not a “nice-to-have” feature but a mandatory foundation driven by compliance, audit, and security requirements. In these environments, recovery speed, cost efficiency, and the ability to operate reliably at large data scales are critical differentiators.

The systems are designed to protect and recover cloud object data in a fully cloud-native manner. Compared to native cloud backup solutions, the platform delivers significantly faster recovery, lower cost for large-scale object storage workloads, and reliable support for substantially higher data volumes. These outcomes result from deliberate engineering decisions across system architecture, data flows, and failure-handling strategies.

The platform is built to gracefully handle disruptions through reprocessing and retries while maintaining correctness under real-world operational conditions at scale. The team operates a proven production platform supporting services such as Amazon S3 and DynamoDB and is expanding into multi-cloud data protection across GCP and Azure.

Role Overview

As a Principal Engineer on the Clumio Data Protection team, you serve as the senior technical leader for cloud-native data protection systems, reporting to the Engineering Director. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with broad architectural ownership, focusing on systems that are critical to customer trust, compliance, and recovery guarantees across the data protection domain.

You define and drive the long-term technical vision for data protection across multiple services and cloud environments. This includes designing and evolving core data protection architectures, making high-impact decisions that balance correctness, scalability, performance, and cost, and leading the most complex and ambiguous technical initiatives from conception through production. You work closely with Product and Customer Success to ensure architectural decisions reflect real-world customer requirements and operational realities, and you set technical standards that ensure consistency across teams and systems.

You remain deeply hands-on while operating at a broader scope, working closely with Senior Engineers to guide designs, mentor technical leaders, and establish durable architectural patterns. You partner with engineering leadership to align technical direction with business and customer requirements.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ 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.
• Experience making high-impact architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs 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 in data management, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, or other data protection domains.
• Strong understanding of secure system design principles, including authorization, encryption, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and shaping technical direction in collaboration with engineering and product leadership.

You’ll Love Working Here Because ...

• 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.

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