Senior Principal DevOps & Tooling Architect

Cadence Design Systems; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadence Design Systems in the United States seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership in tooling, automation, and DevOps for large-scale engineering software delivery.

You will architect and drive scalable developer productivity platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and quality gates, partnering across engineering, QA, architecture, and IT teams to deliver robust build and QA tools.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with tooling, automation, or DevOps leadership.
• Expertise across full SDLC, with measurable delivery of large-scale productivity platforms.
• Strong Agile practices, metrics-driven execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead enterprise-scale tooling and DevOps solutions to boost productivity and reliability.
• Drive CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, and environment provisioning.
• Mentor engineers on automation, SDLC discipline, and secure development practices.
• Partner with multiple teams to translate needs into scalable roadmaps.

Skills

C++

Python

Java

Go

PowerShell

Bash

C#

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Artifactory/Nexus

Job description

Cadence Design Systems in the United States seeks a Senior Principal Software Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership in tooling, automation, and DevOps for large-scale engineering software delivery.

You will architect and drive scalable developer productivity platforms, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and quality gates, partnering across engineering, QA, architecture, and IT teams to deliver robust build and QA tools.