Principal Product Developer

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Principal Product Developer - USA (B)

Country

United States

State

California

City

Santa Clara

Date Published

06-Oct-2025

Job ID

45843

Travel

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Additional Locations

Milpitas - Mountain View - East Foothills - Los Altos - Stanford - Santa Clara

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Description and Requirements

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

We are seeking a Principal Product Developer to guide the design, development, and delivery of innovative data automation and data management software products. This role combines deep technical expertise, hands-on development, and strong leadership to ensure our solutions are scalable, secure, and enterprise-ready. The ideal candidate will be passionate about building software platforms that enable automation, observability, and resilience at scale, while leading a team of engineers in bringing modern data management solutions to life.

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success :

• Architecture & Design – Lead the design and development of enterprise-grade data automation and management products built on top of open-source and cloud-native platforms.
• Scalability – Architect solutions that are secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant to meet the demands of enterprise environments.
• Engineering Practices – Guide the team in adopting best practices in software engineering, including CI / CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps.
• Product Alignment – Collaborate with product management to define technical roadmaps, product requirements, and release strategies.
• Hands-on Development – Contribute directly to coding, code reviews, and system design, ensuring code quality and maintainability.
• Integration – Build and manage integrations with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise systems to deliver seamless automation.
• Mentorship – Coach and mentor engineers, fostering knowledge sharing, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Thought Leadership – Act as a technical authority, staying ahead of industry trends in workflow orchestration, automation, and open-source ecosystems.
• Stakeholder Collaboration – Partner with stakeholders across engineering, operations, and customer success to ensure successful adoption and deployment.

To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience :

Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas!

BMC is committed to equal opportunity employment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, color, religion, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender,  gender expression,  gender identity, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy, disabled veteran or status as a protected veteran.  If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, visit the accommodation request page.

BMC Software maintains a strict policy of not requesting any form of payment in exchange for employment opportunities, upholding a fair and ethical hiring process.

The annual base salary range represents the low and high end of the BMC salary range for this position. Actual salaries depend on a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training, licensure, and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

The range listed is just one component of BMC's employee compensation package. Other rewards may include a variable plan and country specific benefits.

At BMC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at / near the top of the range. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $171,825 - $286,375

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