Senior Principal Engineer-data Protection

Commvault

Seoul, South Korea
On-site
Senior technical authority for data protection
Hands-on engineering and product-wide leadership
Define long-term technical vision for data protection
Commvault is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for their Data Protection team in Seoul, South Korea. This role involves leading technical initiatives for cloud-native systems that ensure data protection, recovery, and compliance for enterprise clients

Job Summary

  • As a Senior Principal Engineer on the Clumio Data Protection team, you are a senior technical authority for data protection correctness, durability, and recovery guarantees.
  • You define and drive the long-term technical and product-facing vision for data protection across the Clumio platform, spanning backup, recovery, replication, policy enforcement, metadata integrity, and failure handling across multiple cloud environments.
  • You lead the organization's complex, high-risk, and ambiguous initiatives—projects where requirements are few, problem boundaries are unclear, and tradeoffs have significant customer and business impact.

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Commvault is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for their Data Protection team in Seoul, South Korea. This role involves leading technical initiatives for cloud-native systems that ensure data protection, recovery, and compliance for enterprise clients.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Senior technical authority for data protection
  • Hands-on engineering and product-wide leadership
  • Define long-term technical vision for data protection
  • Design systems with provable correctness
  • Analyze failure modes and recovery paths
  • Set technical standards for durability and security

Nice-to-have

  • Translate ambiguous needs into technical strategy
  • Partner with Product, Customer Success, Security, Compliance
  • Mentor Principal Engineers and senior technical leaders

Key Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Significant ownership of complex production systems
  • Proven experience leading ambiguous, high-impact technical initiatives
  • Strong ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
  • Deep experience designing distributed or cloud-native systems
  • Working knowledge of English

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