Engineer-Data Protection
Principal Engineer-Data Protection position — see original posting for full details.
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About Commvault
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data.
About the Team
The Clumio Data Protection team designs and operates cloud-native systems that protect and recover large volumes of enterprise cloud data. For many customers, backup is not a “nice-to-have” feature but a mandatory foundation driven by compliance, audit, and security requirements. In these environments, recovery speed, cost efficiency, and the ability to operate reliably at large data scales are critical differentiators.
The systems are designed to protect and recover cloud object data in a fully cloud-native manner. Compared to native cloud backup solutions, the platform delivers significantly faster recovery, lower cost for large-scale object storage workloads, and reliable support for substantially higher data volumes. These outcomes result from deliberate engineering decisions across system architecture, data flows, and failure-handling strategies.
The platform is built to gracefully handle disruptions through reprocessing and retries while maintaining correctness under real-world operational conditions at scale. The team operates a proven production platform supporting services such as Amazon S3 and DynamoDB and is expanding into multi-cloud data protection across GCP and Azure.
Role Overview
As a Principal Engineer on the Clumio Data Protection team, you serve as the senior technical leader for cloud-native data protection systems, reporting to the Engineering Director. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with broad architectural ownership, focusing on systems that are critical to customer trust, compliance, and recovery guarantees across the data protection domain.
You define and drive the long-term technical vision for data protection across multiple services and cloud environm
Posted June 8, 2026