[Skip to main content](#main-content) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) [Hiring report](/reports/hiring/) · [All Cadence Design jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/) · [Search jobs](/search/) Cadence Design · Home China +1 more # Sr. Principal Software Engineer (Automation/Tooling) Home China +1 more Full-time Senior individual contributor Software Engineering Listed on Cadence Design’s official careers site. Posted October 12, 2026. Check that it is still open and apply there. [Apply on Cadence Design’s careers site →](https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/HOME-CHINA/Sr-Principal-Software-Engineer--Automation-Tooling-_R56769-1) [OpenNash Jobs](https://jobs.opennash.com/) / [Cadence Design](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/) / Sr. Principal Software Engineer (Automation/Tooling) ## Job description At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology. ### Position Summary We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to provide strategic technical leadership in tooling, automation, and DevOps for large-scale engineering software delivery. This role is responsible for architecting and driving scalable developer productivity platforms, build and release automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, quality gates, observability, and engineering workflow modernization. The successful candidate will act as a senior technical authority and hands-on individual contributor, partnering across the various engineering, QA, architecture, and IT teams to deliver build and QA tools. ### Key Responsibilities - Architect, design, and lead enterprise-scale tooling, automation, and DevOps solutions that improve engineering productivity, software quality, release efficiency, and operational reliability. - Provide technical leadership for CI/CD pipelines, build systems, release automation, test automation frameworks, deployment workflows, environment provisioning, and developer productivity platforms. - Drive automation across the software development life cycle, including requirements traceability, code integration, static analysis, automated testing, packaging, release validation, deployment, monitoring, and feedback loops. - Establish DevOps best practices for source control strategy, branching and merging, build reproducibility, artifact management, configuration management, infrastructure as code, secrets management, and secure software delivery. - Partner with engineering, QA, security, IT, architecture, and product teams to translate business and engineering needs into scalable technical solutions and implementation roadmaps. - Guide and mentor engineers on automation design, DevOps practices, SDLC discipline, Agile execution, code quality, testing strategy, observability, and continuous improvement. - Communicate technical strategy, tradeoffs, risks, metrics, and execution plans clearly to senior stakeholders and engineering leadership. ### Required Qualifications Education - Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline is required. ### Experience - 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience leading tooling, automation, DevOps, build/release engineering, developer productivity, or engineering infrastructure initiatives. - Demonstrated expertise across the full software development life cycle, including planning, design, implementation, code review, integration, testing, release, deployment, operations, maintenance, and continuous improvement. - Strong proficiency with Agile development practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, estimation, iterative delivery, retrospectives, cross-functional collaboration, and metrics-driven execution. - Deep experience designing and modernizing CI/CD pipelines, build automation, test automation, release orchestration, deployment workflows, and engineering productivity systems for large-scale software products. - Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation, configuration management, environment provisioning, artifact management, dependency management, and reproducible build systems. - Experience establishing quality gates, automated validation, static and dynamic analysis, security scanning, compliance checks, release readiness criteria, and operational monitoring within engineering workflows. - Strong background in software development using languages such as C++, Python, C#, Java, Go, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent languages used for product development and engineering automation. - Experience working with distributed engineering teams and aligning tooling, DevOps, and automation strategy across multiple products, platforms, and stakeholders. - Practical experience using AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools to improve coding productivity, code review efficiency, documentation, and engineering workflows. ### Technical Skills - Expert-level proficiency with DevOps toolchains such as Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, TeamCity, Artifactory, Nexus, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent technologies. - Strong programming and scripting skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure integration using Python, PowerShell, Bash, C++, C#, Java, Go, or comparable languages. - Hands-on experience on Windows and Linux platforms, including build configuration, deployment automation, diagnostics, performance analysis, and cross-platform engineering workflows. - Strong knowledge of SDLC governance, Agile engineering practices, CI/CD maturity models, release management, branching strategies, code review workflows, automated quality gates, and secure development practices. - Experience with observability, telemetry, logging, metrics, alerting, reliability engineering, incident analysis, and continuous feedback mechanisms for engineering systems. - Familiarity with cloud and virtualization platforms such as Azure, AWS, VMware, or equivalent environments used for build, test, deployment, and engineering infrastructure automation. ### Soft Skills - Strong communication and collaboration skills. - Problem-solving and analytical thinking. - Ability to work independently and in a team environment. - Strong organizational and time-management skills.N/A We’re doing work that matters. Help us solve what others can’t. ## At a glance - Posted by the employer: Oct 12, 2026 - First seen by OpenNash: Oct 18, 2026 - Last checked: Oct 18, 2026 - Listed for: 6 days - Location: Home China +1 more - Employment type: Full-time[Apply on Cadence Design’s careers site →](https://cadence.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/HOME-CHINA/Sr-Principal-Software-Engineer--Automation-Tooling-_R56769-1) ## More jobs at Cadence Design ### [Lead Software Engineer (Framework)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/bb2ff3772575e215760d/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Geometry)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/6a8fce08b9b2cbdecdda/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Graphics)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/f36ee60ef7f5374a7ed8/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Postprocessing)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/7060123db7314d7860eb/) Home China +1 more ### [Lead Software Engineer (Preprocessing)](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/cadence-design/jobs/8927f390ec1287689788/) Home China +1 more ## Similar jobs at other companies ### [Junior Software Engineer – Automation PLC](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/siemens/jobs/2abe9c7e9a28c0ee5f4a/) Siemens ### [Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/capgemini/jobs/68b70570e80731f1f389/) Capgemini · Utrecht ### [Software Integration Engineer, Laboratory Automation](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/thermo-fisher-scientific/jobs/9345c4eb77bd6b277490/) Thermo Fisher Scientific · Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of ### [Senior Software Engineer Network Automation Architect Dallas Texas United States](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/equinix/jobs/d04a74e41605225249eb/) Equinix ### [Principal Software Engineer](https://jobs.opennash.com/companies/microsoft/jobs/3adc27485dc247795775/) Microsoft · India, Karnataka, Bangalore OpenNash lists jobs from employers’ own careers sites and does not handle applications. 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