Principal Engineer

IBM

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type: On-site
Location: Poughkeepsie, NYLowell, MARochester, NYTucson, AZResearch Triangle Park, NCArmonk, NYBoston, MABellevue, WAAtlanta, GASan Jose, CADallas, TXAustin, TXSan Francisco, CASeattle, WA
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

Market check

Salary context

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $197k

$131k $257k

below market most similar roles pay here above market

This listing doesn't post a salary. Most similar roles pay $172,612–$220,800.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About IBM

IBM is a US-based global technology company providing hybrid cloud, AI, consulting, enterprise software, and IT infrastructure products and services.

IBM currently has 242 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $180,812–$215,000 across 9 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at IBM

At a glance

TL;DR · Principal Engineer

Role Posting Log in to save

As a Principal Engineer for the Cloud Architecture and Reliability team, you will serve as a technical authority ensuring a large-scale, multi-cloud data streaming platform remains resilient and recoverable. You will work across all R&D teams to shape system architecture and internal tooling. Your daily responsibilities include defining architectural patterns for systemic resiliency, managing service dependencies, and designing a large-scale internal observability platform using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. You will make critical tradeoffs regarding cost, cardinality, and platform self-protection while building agent-consumable operational data and guardrails for AI-assisted triage. Additionally, you will translate reliability and observability requirements from regulated customers in the financial services and public sectors into engineering standards. You must possess the skills to lead other engineers in delivering these complex technical solutions.

What does a Engineer earn in New York?

Median $202000 from 33 postings across 15 companies.

See salary data

Skills

Cloud Architecture Data Streaming OpenTelemetry Prometheus Multi-cloud Observability Metrics Logs Traces AI-assisted triage

What you'll do

Define architectural patterns and standards to ensure systemic resiliency for Confluent Cloud.
Analyze how services, dependencies, and failure domains compose across the platform.
Shape the architecture of a large-scale internal observability platform using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Manage tradeoffs for cost, cardinality, signal attribution, and platform self-protection.
Design and build agent-consumable operational data and guardrails for AI-assisted triage.
Translate regulatory and contractual requirements from customers into engineering standards.
Serve as the technical authority for multi-cloud data streaming platform reliability and recovery.

What we're looking for

Act as a technical authority on large-scale, multi-cloud data streaming platform reliability and recovery.
Define architectural patterns and standards to create systemic resiliency for Confluent Cloud.
Shape the architecture of a large-scale internal observability platform using OpenTelemetry and Prometheus.
Design and build agent-consumable operational data, tooling, and guardrails for AI-assisted triage and remediation.
Translate regulatory and contractual expectations from customers into engineering standards.

Similar roles

Principal Engineer, Platform Services

Autodesk

San Francisco, CA 27 days ago

Java AWS S3 Lambda SQS SNS Aurora DynamoDB Redis MemoryDB Apache Kafka Apache Flink Kafka Streams Spark Streaming CI/CD Jenkins Dynatrace Splunk Grafana Agile Distributed Systems

9+ yrs exp

Save

Principal Software Engineer

Autodesk

Atlanta, GA 79 days ago

Distributed Systems Data Pipelines NoSQL Object Storage Serverless API Design ETL DevOps Search Relevance Schema Validation

8+ yrs exp Hybrid

Save

Principal Engineer, Cloud

Carmax

Richmond, VA +1 19 days ago $136,200–$204,300

Azure AWS Cloud Platform Kubernetes Python PowerShell CI/CD Azure DevOps TeamCity Cloud Networking Virtualization AI Agents Storage Access Control

7+ yrs exp Hybrid

Save

Principal Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Financial Services

Durham, NC 17 days ago

Java Spring Spring Boot Spring Batch Angular TypeScript Kafka Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS REST SOAP JSON XML Jenkins GitHub Agile Scrum Unit Testing

8+ yrs exp

Save

Principal Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Financial Services

Durham, NC 18 days ago

Java Spring Boot Spring Framework AWS Lambda EKS S3 Dynamo DB Kinesis RESTful Services Docker Jenkins CI/CD OAuth 2.0 JWT OpenFGA Swagger YAML JSON J2EE RBAC ReBAC

10+ yrs exp

Save

Principal Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Financial Services

Westlake, TX 16 days ago

Java Spring Boot Apache Kafka AWS Distributed Systems Event-Driven Architecture Microservices RESTful APIs CI/CD Observability System Design Automated Testing Scalable Messaging Platforms Cloud-Native High Availability

Save