Principal Software Developer

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

The Role

AspenTech is looking for a talented and experienced Developer to join our Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) organization. In this role, you will be a member of an Agile development team responsible for the delivery of next-generation industrial software solutions. This solution will provide a software-defined, data-centric, flexible platform which enables automation for AspenTech’s diverse customer base.

As a member of the EOP development team, you’ll work on cutting‑edge industrial edge‑connectivity and distributed‑computing projects that surface data from the plant floor all the way to the cloud. The team focuses on building highly performant data services that securely move and manage massive volumes of information. You’ll help create solutions that configure, contextualize, analyze, and visualize data, making it easily accessible to a wide range of applications. The EOP platform supports multiple operating systems and serverless cloud‑native technology stacks, giving the team opportunities to work across a diverse set of modern technologies.

This role’s contributions have highly visible impacts on the success and scalability of our software offerings to our customers. Our organization and product are positioned in the market to grow at a rapid pace over the next decade with varied opportunities for career growth.

Your Impact

• Actively participate with team members as part of a scaled Agile organization.

• Take high level strategic requirements and work with a team to refine them into actionable user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.

• Produce high-quality, reliable, performant, and fault tolerant code to meet strategic business objectives.

• Monitor, support, and maintain software products in an Agile development environment.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

• Maintain and enhance in-house DevOps tooling written in Bash and Python.

• Debug integration and performance problems.

• Contribute to a culture of accountability and collaboration across a variety of support, development, security, and product teams.

• Continually demonstrate adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements.

• Stay current with industry trends and best practices around cloud native and Software-as-a-Service technologies.

• Demonstrate effective communication skills as a participant in a variety of Agile ceremonies.

What You'll Need

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 8-12 years of related experience OR an advanced degree with less experience.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies, services, architecture, and container orchestration.

• Proficient in designing and implementing RESTful APIs

• Practical, working experience with several of the following:

• Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, MSSQL

• Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, Python, Lua

• JavaScript Frameworks: Angular, React

• Continuous Integration: Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions

• Cloud: Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm, Terraform

• Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

• Observability and Monitoring: OpenTelemetry

• Automated testing frameworks: Playwright

• Identity and access management: OAuth 2.0, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Architecture Expertise: Microservices, REST API Design

• Data platforms and integrations: Inmation, Aveva PI Connect, Microsoft Fabric

• Working experience in the following areas:

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

• CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines)

• Artifact repositories and vulnerability scanning tools (Artifactory, Blackduck, Snyk)

• GitOps tools (Flux, ArgoCD) and promotion models

• Basic knowledge of IoT or Edge devices and an understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, constraints, and risks.

• Experience with Agile development frameworks such as SAFe or Scrum.

• Strong personal project management skills; able to be self-directed and capable of working effectively in an environment with a high degree of change.

• Strong technical leadership skills with a willingness to coach and mentor team members.

• Strong object-oriented design and debugging skills.

• Willingness to contribute ideas and solutions while honoring and supporting the ideas of others.

• Passionate about finding creative solutions to problems, and pride in well-crafted code.

Work Authorization

AspenTech will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

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The salary range for this role is $127,000.00 - $158,700.00. This range represents what we in good faith believe is the range possible for base compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range based on several factors. This range may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for bonus or variable incentive pay. Additionally, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, charitable giveback day, medical/dental/vision insurance, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.