Principal Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Culture and Impact

Cvent is a leading provider of meetings, events, and hospitality technology with over 5,500 employees and 30,000 customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, Cvent offers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform and software solutions for hotels, venues, and destinations. Our technology connects millions of people at events globally, and our culture encourages entrepreneurial thinking and diverse perspectives.

AI at Cvent

At Cvent, we're committed to integrating AI into our work, recognizing it as part of our DNA. We seek candidates eager to evolve alongside technology, using AI to enhance productivity and innovation.

About the role

The Cloud Infrastructure Principal Engineer will lead the evolution of secure, scalable, and highly automated AWS infrastructure, supporting both customer-facing applications and internal platforms. They will set architectural direction, develop automation, and partner with security, database, and SRE teams.

Responsibilities

• Set architectural direction for core cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities
• Build and improve internal cloud platforms and self-service workflows
• Develop automation using AWS CDK, Python, TypeScript, and related tools
• Build infrastructure-as-code solutions to standardize and streamline cloud deployments
• Partner with Security, Database, Enterprise Services, and SRE teams to solve complex 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

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and/or Security Engineering
• Strong experience building automation, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, and infrastructure tooling using Python, TypeScript, or similar languages
• Proven experience designing and operating AWS infrastructure in high-scale, multi-account, multi-region production environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically through influence, architectural clarity, and strong engineering judgment
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, stakeholders, and leadership at multiple levels
• Experience leading technical initiatives across distributed or global teams and helping raise the technical bar of an organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building infrastructure-as-code solutions using AWS CDK, preferably with TypeScript
• Hands-on experience with serverless architectures and AWS services such as Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, and related platform components
• Experience with configuration management and systems automation using tools like AWS Systems Manager, Chef, or Ansible
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure administration
• Experience using Active Directory and Group Policy to manage access and system configuration
• Experience building or improving internal developer platforms, self-service tooling, or cloud governance frameworks
• Experience evaluating emerging technologies and translating them into practical platform improvements

Schedule

This role follows a hybrid schedule: 2 days in the office (Monday, Tuesday, and Friday), and 2 days remote (Wednesday and Thursday).

On-Call and Work Model

Due to the 24x7x365 nature of Cloud Infrastructure, this role participates in an on-call rotation. The rotation is typically one week every six weeks, with daytime coverage shared across regions and handoff to the India team overnight.