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Job Name
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

CareerArc Code
CA-BS
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Hybrid: #LI-Hybrid
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 looking for a Principal Product Developer to help build our next-generation Agentic-AI Data management platform from 0-1. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role for a principal engineer who thrives in early-stage environments, wears multiple hats, and takes pride in shipping real products used by external enterprise customers.

You will work alongside an established architect, contribute to architectural decisions, and spend a significant portion of your time designing, building, and evolving the product itself. Success is measured by the quality, reliability, and extensibility of what ships.

Here is how, through this exciting role, YOU will contribute to BMC's and your own success: 
  • Product Engineering (Primary Focus) - Design, build, and iterate on core components of a data automation and data management platform, taking features from concept through production in a 0-1 product environment.
  • Hands-on Development - Write high-quality Python code, review pull requests, and actively shape system design decisions with a strong bias toward simplicity, maintainability, and delivery.
  • Architecture Collaboration - Partner closely with the product architect to evolve system architecture, trade-offs, and technical direction as the product matures and real customer constraints emerge.
  • Data Platform Capabilities - Build capabilities around data orchestration, data lineage, observability, governance, and resilience, with a strong understanding of how enterprise customers operate data platforms at scale.
  • Integration & Cloud Enablement - Develop integrations with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and enterprise systems to support automation and deployment in real-world customer environments.
  • Engineering Practices - Help establish pragmatic engineering standards, including CI/CD, automated testing, and DevOps practices appropriate for a fast-moving product team.
  • Product Collaboration - Work closely with product management to translate product requirements into technical solutions, influence scope and sequencing, and ensure rapid learning from customer feedback.
  • Founder-Level Ownership - Act with a strong sense of ownership: identify gaps, propose solutions, and move work forward without waiting for perfect requirements or ideal conditions.

To ensure you’re set up for success, you will bring the following skillset & experience:
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and shipping B2B products for external customers.
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with a track record of designing and delivering production-grade systems.
  • Deep experience with data products, particularly in one or more of the following areas:
    • Data orchestration
    • Data management platforms
    • Data lineage, observability, or governance
  • Strong system design skills, with the ability to balance short-term delivery against long-term platform evolution.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, start-up-style environments where priorities evolve and engineers are expected to lead as well as execute.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.

Broad technical exposure (depth not required in all areas)
  • Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Familiarity with containerization and distributed systems (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, microservices).
  • Exposure to a range of data technologies such as relational databases, cloud data warehouses, data transformation frameworks, and object storage.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Whilst these are nice to have, our team can help you develop in the following skills: 
  • Experience building or extending workflow orchestration platforms (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect), including custom operators and production deployments.
  • Experience contributing to or commercializing open-source software.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts, including how emerging technologies (such as LLMs) could enhance automation or developer productivity in data platforms.

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

Min salary
171,825

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.

Mid point salary
229,100
Max salary
286,375
Min Salary - NEW
171,825
Max Salary - NEW
286,375