Principal Software Development Engineer

Principal Software Development Engineer

Req. # 28504

Job Family DE - Development Engineering

Location US-MA-Milford

Pay Range Minimum USD $149,500.00

Pay Range Maximum USD $249,000.00

Overview

We need your talent! Waters Corporation is currently seeking a DevOps Principal Engineer to joinourGlobal Software Engineering team.

Our team understands the value of their work in the real world. As a DevOps Principal Engineer in Milford, MA you'll be working with technology used for quality testing and the development of nearly every drug taken in around the globe. These are processes that we want to optimize. Consider this, today's lab instruments can only be viewed from the lab - our mission here is to be able to enable scientists to see their lab results from Starbucks, home, anywhere you can access the internet.

We are just getting started with building our next generation best in class platform with a goal of being the "best in the industry" to support our customers across life, materials, food, and environmental sciences.

We are looking for a passionate Principal DevOps Engineer to lead our CI/CD platform initiatives in a hybrid cloud and physical instrument environment. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership to drive horizontal alignment across multiple development value streams and establish enterprise-scale automation practices. This role is onsite 3x/week in Milford, MA: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Our organization is built on the principles of strong collaboration, cross-functional teamwork, and a relentless drive to solve problems that matter. If this is the type of culture you excel in, then we look forward to speaking with you.

Responsibilities

Internal Platform Development & Architecture Design, develop, and evolve internal build platforms (primarily in Python) serving 65+ active software projects. Build and scale platform services that reliably handle 10,000+ jobs, with clear SLIs/SLOs, observability, and failure modes teams can understand. Own platform APIs, CLIs, and self-service workflows so teams can onboard, build, test, and release without tickets. Treat internal developers as customers: gather feedback, prioritize pain points, and iterate on developer experience.CI/CD Excellence & Process Optimization Implement and improve pipeline primitives, reusable templates, and release automation that raise quality and cadence across teams. Reduce manual toil by encoding policy and workflow into the platform-creating guardrails as code and eliminating tribal knowledge. Support horizontal integration across diverse value streams via shared contracts, plugins, and extension points.Infrastructure & Technical Leadership Solve hybrid-cloud and... For full info follow application link.

Waters Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.