Principal Software Engineer, ALM

Location: Sindelfingen

## Principal Software Engineer, ALMApply:
Sindelfingen, Germany:
DEU-Munich New:
DEU-Magdeburg:
DEU-Dusseldorf:
Full time:
Posted Today:
JR112861

Our world is transforming, and PTC is leading the way. Our software brings the physical and digital worlds together, enabling companies to improve operations, create better products, and empower people in all aspects of their business.

Our people make all the difference in our success. Today, we are a global team of nearly 7,000 and our main objective is to create opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow – all while seeing their ideas come to life and celebrating the differences that make us who we are and the work we do possible.
** Position Overview
** PTC's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) organization is seeking a highly experienced Principal Software Engineer to drive technical excellence, architectural evolution, and engineering innovation across our next-generation ALM solutions, including Codebeamer and related product offerings.

As a Principal Software Engineer within the Enterprise Deployment Center (EDC), you will serve as a senior technical authority, influencing product evolution, architecture, scalability, and engineering practices across multiple teams. You will partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Customer Success, and strategic customers to address complex technical challenges and improve the performance, scalability, resilience, and adoption of our enterprise software solutions.

This role is ideal for a recognized software engineering expert with deep expertise in enterprise software, cloud-native architectures, AI-enabled development, Dev Ops practices, and large-scale distributed systems. Success in this role is achieved through technical credibility, engineering expertise, and the ability to influence decisions across organizational boundaries.  
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* Key Responsibilities:

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* ** Technical Leadership & Strategy
*** Influence the long-term technical direction of ALM products and platforms through engineering expertise and real-world customer experience.
* Contribute to architectural roadmaps and technology strategies across multiple engineering teams.
* Act as a trusted technical advisor on software engineering, architecture, scalability, performance, and operational excellence topics.
* Influence product evolution through deep understanding of customer challenges, deployment patterns, and market trends.
* Drive technical discussions and facilitate alignment among engineering, architecture, product, and customer-facing teams.
** Architecture & Engineering Excellence
*** Contribute to the design and evolution of highly scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise software systems.
* Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native architectures, microservices, AI-enabled capabilities, observability, and platform scalability.
* Provide guidance and review for critical architectural and technical decisions across strategic initiatives.
* Promote solutions that meet performance, reliability, compliance, maintainability, and security requirements.
* Champion software engineering best practices, code quality, automation, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
** Performance, Scalability & Platform Evolution
*** Lead investigations into complex performance, reliability, scalability, and operational challenges.
* Identify architectural bottlenecks and recommend improvements based on technical analysis and production experience.
* Influence the evolution of platform capabilities that improve resilience, observability, automation, and developer productivity.
* Support large-scale enterprise deployments through expertise in distributed systems, databases, cloud infrastructure, and application performance engineering.
* Drive adoption of engineering practices that improve system operability and long-term sustainability.
** Innovation
* ** Identify emerging technologies and assess their applicability to PTC's ALM portfolio.
* Champion AI-assisted engineering, automation, analytics, and modern software delivery practices.
* Drive proof-of-concepts and technical evaluations that help shape future product capabilities.
* Collaborate with customers, partners, and industry experts to understand evolving technical and business requirements.
* Promote continuous improvement and innovation across products, platforms, and engineering processes.
** Cross-Functional Collaboration
*** Partner closely with Product Management to align technical…