Engineer
US$183,000 – US$236,500 / yr base salary
Posted 25 Sep 2026
Advertised as “Principal Engineer - Enterprise DevOps & ALM Platforms”
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- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
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| Base salary | US$183,000 – US$236,500 / yr |
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Principal Engineer - Enterprise DevOps & ALM Platforms
Software Engineering delivers innovative platforms, tools, and services that enable teams across Dell Technologies to accelerate development, improve operational excellence, and deliver secure, scalable solutions globally.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Principal Engineer, Enterprise DevOps & ALM Platforms on our Engineering Productivity & Platform Engineering team in Hopkinton, Massachusetts or Round Rock, Texas.
What you’ll achieve
In this position as Principal Engineer, Enterprise DevOps & ALM Platforms, you will define the technical strategy, architecture, and operational standards for Dell Technologies' enterprise DevOps and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) ecosystem. You will lead the modernization, reliability, security, and scalability of critical engineering platforms supporting thousands of developers worldwide. Working across Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams, you will drive platform innovation, cloud adoption, automation, and AI-powered engineering experiences. You will also serve as a senior technical leader, establishing best practices and influencing strategic technology decisions across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
You will:
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- Define and execute the architecture, reliability, scalability, and disaster recovery strategy for enterprise engineering platforms including Jira, Confluence, GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, Artifactory, Kafka, SonarQube, Coverity, and qTest
- Lead Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices through observability, service level objectives, incident management, performance engineering, and continuous reliability improvements
- Establish secure-by-design platform standards, identity integrations, access governance, cyber resilience programs, and compliance readiness across the engineering ecosystem
- Drive platform engineering automation through Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD standardization, self-service capabilities, and cloud-native modernization initiatives.
- Champion AI-powered platform operations, developer productivity improvements, and technical leadership through mentoring, architectural guidance, and cross-functional collaboration