Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Our Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and approximately 30,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business.

Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.

Cvent’s strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.

Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI‑augmented work, you’ll thrive here.

Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.

Throughout our interview process, you’ll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you’re excited to be part of a team that’s leading the way in AI‑powered collaboration, we’d love to meet you.

We are looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Principal Engineer to help shape the platform behind our event and hospitality SaaS business. This is a high‑impact, hands‑on leadership role for an engineer who thrives at setting architectural direction, solving complex platform challenges, and creating leverage across teams through strong technical judgment, automation, and platform design.

Lead the evolution of secure, scalable, and highly automated AWS infrastructure that supports both customer‑facing applications and the internal platforms our engineering teams depend on to build and operate software  will influence the long‑term direction of our cloud foundation, advance self‑service infrastructure capabilities, and drive modern engineering practices across a global organization.

• Set architectural direction for core cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities across a multi‑account, multi‑region AWS environment.
• Build and improve internal cloud platforms and self‑service workflows that accelerate delivery while strengthening governance and reliability.
• Develop automation using technologies such as AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, Python, Type Script, and Chef.
• Build infrastructure‑as‑code solutions with AWS CDK to standardize and streamline cloud deployments.
• Partner closely with Security, Database, Enterprise Services, and SRE teams across the US, Canada, and India to solve complex cross‑functional infrastructure challenges.
• Provide senior technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and hands‑on problem solving.
• Identify and implement practical uses of generative AI to improve internal tooling, automation, and speed of execution.

• 25% hands‑on engineering and automation development
• 25% code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance
• 25% architecture, planning, and cross‑team technical leadership
• 25% operational support and partnership with internal customers

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, Dev Ops, SRE, and/or Security Engineering.
• Strong experience building automation, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure tooling using Python, Type Script, or…