Principal Software Development Engineer

We need your talent!

Waters Corporation is currently seeking a Dev Ops Principal Engineer to joinour

Global Software Engineering team.

Our team understands the value of their work in the real world. As a Dev Ops Principal Engineer in Milford, MAyou'llbe working with technology used for quality testing andthedevelopment of nearly every drugtakenin around the globe. These are processes that we want to optimize. Consider this, today’s lab instruments can only be viewed from the lab – our mission here is to be able toenable scientists to see their lab results from Starbucks, home, anywhere you can access the internet.

We are just getting started with building our next generation best in class platform with a goal of being the “best in the industry” to support our customers across life, materials, food, and environmental sciences.

We are looking for a passionate Principal Dev Ops Engineer to lead our CI/CD platform initiatives in a hybrid cloud and physical instrument environment. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership to drive horizontal alignment across multiple development value streams and establish enterprise-scale automation practices.

This role is onsite 3x/week in Milford, MA:
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

Our organization is built on the principles of strong collaboration, cross-functional teamwork, and a relentless drive to solve problems that matter. If this is the type of culture you excel in, then we look forward to speaking with you.

• Design, develop, and evolve internal build platforms (primarily in Python) serving 65+ active software projects.
• Build and scale platform services that reliably handle 10,000+ jobs, with clear SLIs/SLOs, observability, and failure modes teams can understand.
• Own platform APIs, CLIs, and self-service workflows so teams can onboard, build, test, and release without tickets.
• Treat internal developers as customers: gather feedback, prioritize pain points, and iterate on developer experience.

• Implement and improve pipeline primitives, reusable templates, and release automation that raise quality and cadence across teams.
• Reduce manual toil by encoding policy and workflow into the platform—creating guardrails as code and eliminating tribal knowledge.
• Support horizontal integration across diverse value streams via shared contracts, plugins, and extension points.

• Solve hybrid-cloud and on-premises constraints through durable platform abstractions, and eliminate ticket-driven firefighting.
• Support physical instrument and hardware-constrained workflows with purpose-built platform capabilities where needed.
• Stay hands-on designing and shipping production-quality code; use ops experience to inform architecture.

• Serve as a technical leader and mentor, elevating the capabilities of engineers across the organization.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration, ensuring smooth integration across systems, teams, and business functions.
• Establish and champion best practices, standards, and patterns for Dev Ops and platform engineering.
• Communicate technical strategies and trade-offs clearly with engineers, leadership, and stakeholders at all levels.

Abilities that will help you be successful:

• Education & Experience:Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science (or a related field) with 10+ years of Dev Ops/platform engineering experience, including operating at scale.
• Programming Expertise:Strong proficiency in Python, with a deep understanding of object-oriented design and maintainable software architecture.
• Git at Scale:Expert Git; multi-repo/monorepo strategies; branching and…