# Principal Software Development Engineer

Overview We need your talent! Waters Corporation is currently seeking a DevOps Principal Engineer to join our Global Software Engineering team. Our team understands the value of their work in the real world. As a DevOps Principal Engineer in Milford, MA you'll be working with technology used for quality testing and the development of nearly every drug taken in 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 to enable 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 DevOps 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 practic

- **Id**: 3855671
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/waters-corporation-principal-software-development-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milford, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T06:12:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T17:51:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7450
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Laboratory Equipment, Test & Measurement Instruments, Scientific & Lab Software

## Company

- **Id**: 1791869
- **Name**: Waters Corporation
- **Domain**: waters.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/waters-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: D
- **Score**: 51
- **Open postings**: 75
- **Ghost share**: 0.68
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.88
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 18
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: yes
- **Chef** — Optional: yes
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T06:12:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 27 · green card filings: 9; Filings 12m: 27

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 18
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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