Principal Software Engineer (Data Warehousing/Lakehouse and Analytics Solutions)
The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics - all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Principal Software Engineer on our ISG Software Engineering team in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Round Rock, Texas, Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
What you'll achieve
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for architecting and delivering complex, scalable, highperformance software systems. You will shape technical direction, mentor senior engineers, drive engineering excellence, and influence strategy across product teams. Principal Engineers at Dell act as project leaders and architectural anchors, guiding teams toward highimpact, highquality outcomes.
Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here's what we are looking for with this role:
Essential Requirements
- 8-12 years of experience delivering complex, largescale software systems with strong backend development skills in Python, Java, C#, or similar
- Deep expertise in data warehousing and lakehouse architectures, including data modeling, governance, and data presentation platforms
- Handson experience building and operating data pipelines, orchestration, and transformations using tools such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, or NiFi
- Advanced knowledge of distributed and cloudnative systems, including eventdriven architectures, APIs, performance optimization, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and relational, NoSQL, and eventbased platforms (e.g., Kafka)
- Proven ability to independently design, implement, and debug complex systems while demonstrating technical leadership, mentoring, and crossteam collaboration
Desirable Requirements
- Experience integrating AIenabled capabilities into enterprise systems, including agentic AI patterns, LLMdriven automation, autonomous agents, RAG, prompt engineering, and vector databases
- Strong foundation in modern platform engineering, including Agile/Scrum practices, GitOps, Kubernetes tooling and security, and contributions to platform strategy or architectural governance
You will:
- Lead the design and architecture of data and information systems supporting ISG business operations
- Develop endtoend datadriven software solutions, ensuring performance, reliability, and longterm maintainability
- Own complex technical implementations, including risk identification, mitigation, and solutioning
- Conduct design and code reviews while mentoring senior and midlevel engineers
- Collaborate crossfunctionally to deliver enterprisegrade integrations, modernization initiatives, and influence engineering standards and platform strategy