Frontend — Principal Engineer

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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.

Frontend - Principal Engineer The Opportunity We have an outstanding career opportunity for Frontend- Principal Engineer at Bangalore location. As a Frontend Principal Engineer on the Clumio team, you serve as a technical leader for the frontend platform and foundations that power Clumio’s SaaS experience. Reporting to the Engineering Director, this role blends deep hands-on frontend engineering with architectural leadership, focusing on building scalable, reliable, and high-quality frontend systems used across the product.

About The Team The Frontend Engineering team designs, builds, and maintains the user interfaces that power Clumio's SaaS platform. The team is responsible for delivering intuitive, reliable, and secure user experiences for a mission-critical data protection product. In this context, usability, availability, and operational robustness are essential requirements rather than optional enhancements.

The team builds modern, scalable frontend systems using cloud-native and micro-frontend architectural patterns that enable independent development and deployment of frontend components. Frontend Engineering works closely with product management, design, backend, quality assurance and platform teams to translate complex workflows into clear and cohesive user experiences. As Clumio continues to evolve and scale its platform, the team plays a key role in shaping frontend architecture, improving developer productivity, and ensuring a consistent and dependable user experience across the product.

What You’ll Do…

• You design, build, and operate backend services that support core platform capabilities such as control planes, user-access management, and backup workflows.
• You own and drive cross-cutting frontend platform initiatives that span multiple product teams and applications.
• This includes designing and evolving shared frontend platforms such as component libraries, design systems, and common infrastructure; defining frontend architectural standards and patterns; and making technical decisions that balance usability, performance, maintainability, and developer experience.
• You lead complex initiatives from problem definition through production rollout and adoption, ensuring architectural intent is reflected in production-quality implementations.
• In this role, you remain deeply hands-on, spending a significant portion of your time writing and reviewing code, solving complex frontend application and platform challenges, and supporting frontend systems in production.
• You work closely with the Engineering Director and partner with senior engineers, product managers, and designers to guide technical direction, mentor engineers, and establish UI standards and platform capabilities that enable the frontend to scale across teams and evolve with the product.

Who You Are…

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of professional frontend/UI engineering experience, with significant ownership of complex, production frontend platforms or large-scale web applications.
• Hands-on experience with modern single-page application frameworks, including React (preferred), Next.js, or Vue.js, with the ability to evaluate and apply framework-level trade-offs at scale.
• Strong, in-depth understanding of TypeScript, including advanced typing patterns and building type-safe, scalable frontend architectures.
• Experience designing and operating frontend platforms, such as shared component libraries, design systems, and common frontend infrastructure used across multiple teams.
• Experience with frontend build systems and tooling such as Webpack, Rollup, or Vite, including build optimization and developer experience improvement.
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend unit testing practices, including React Testing Library and Jest, along with state management and data-fetching solutions such as React Query (or similar libraries.
• Highly collaborative, team-first mindset with strong ownership and self-direction, and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.
• Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.

You’ll Love Working Here Because

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Annual health check-ups, Car lease Program, and Tuition Reimbursement
• An inclusive company culture, an opportunity to join our Community Guilds
• Personal accident cover and Term life cover

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!

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