Principal Engineer - Enterprise COBOL Application

Broadcom
Durham
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 129,400 - 207,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Written communication","Verbal communication","Problem-solving","Structural debugging","Data-driven analysis"]

Own and evolve an internal enterprise COBOL application that powers test-data generation, complex scenario simulation, and demo environments for Broadcom’s mainframe software division. Act as a player-coach and SME, balancing run vs. build, driving the roadmap and backlog, and writing COBOL code to deliver new features. Ensure stability and integration with CI/CD pipelines, middleware, and MSD DevOps tooling while advising other product teams.

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Principal Engineer - Enterprise COBOL Application

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Job Summary

Own and evolve an internal enterprise COBOL application that powers test-data generation, complex scenario simulation, and demo environments for Broadcom’s mainframe software division. Act as a player-coach and SME, balancing run vs. build, driving the roadmap and backlog, and writing COBOL code to deliver new features. Ensure stability and integration with CI/CD pipelines, middleware, and MSD DevOps tooling while advising other product teams.
Location: Durham
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define, prioritize, and manage the backlog/roadmap for the COBOL application to meet QA, automation, and demo needs.
  • •Balance patching existing logic vs. engineering new scalable capabilities for modern testing frameworks.
  • •Write, test, and deploy COBOL code to add features and enhance application capabilities.
  • •Support stable operations and integrations with CI/CD pipelines and middleware.
  • •Serve as an internal technical advisor/SME to help other product teams build test environments and demo scenarios using the applications.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 129,400 - 207,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEsppEapPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a heavy focus on enterprise COBOL development in IBM mainframe or mainframe-emulation environments.
  • •Bachelors with 12+ years related experience, or Masters with 10+ years related experience.
  • •High proficiency building applications leveraging mainframe subsystems such as Db2, IMS, CICS, IDMS, and Datacom.
  • •Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams and stakeholders.
  • •Experience with source code management tools such as Endevor and GitHub.
Experience:12+ yearsMainframeEnterprise software
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Written communicationVerbal communicationProblem-solvingStructural debuggingData-driven analysis
Tech Stack:COBOLIBM mainframeMainframe-emulationDb2IMSCICSIDMSDatacomEndevorGitHubCI/CDMiddlewareMSD DevOpsAgile

Company Brief

Broadcom
Designs, develops, and supplies a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions for the data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets worldwide.
Industry: Electronics Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Irvine, United States
Founded: 1991
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