Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Principal Application Development Engineer role sits at an uncommon intersection in SaaS: cloud-delivered integration software that still depends on deep mainframe expertise. Work centered on TIBCO mainframe integration products and observability suggests a platform layer that many SaaS businesses rely on to connect legacy systems to modern services, where reliability and interoperability are as important as feature velocity.
For a long-term SaaS career, the value is in building platform-grade engineering judgment. Designing and maintaining integration components, debugging production failures through dump analysis, and translating product requirements into development and test work mirrors how mature SaaS organizations protect uptime while evolving core capabilities. Experience with Agile practices, GitHub workflows, and emerging AI tooling adds current delivery patterns to a skill set that is otherwise rare in cloud-first teams.
This position best fits an engineer who prefers ownership of complex systems, is comfortable working independently, and can communicate clearly across distributed teams. It also suits someone who enjoys mentoring and raising the technical bar, particularly in environments where deep diagnostics, disciplined testing, and pragmatic architecture decisions are central to product credibility.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Managing and contributing to the design, development and maintenance of TIBCO Mainframe Integration Products and their related eco-systems. Also under the duties will be training and mentoring existing staff, TIBCO and the future and Mainframe Observability integration
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in IBM systems and applications development
- Minimum of 10 years in advanced IBM assembler programming, using Macros, SRBs, XCF and IBM’s System Logger (IXG) is essential
- Minimum of 7 years, actively reading z/OS system/application dumps using IPCS and XDC
Understand software best practices, design strategy and planning, test case development, deployment and execution, and identify product defects, debug issues and have them reported into a defect tracking system
Experience working with Agile methodologies, GitHub and AI Tools and concepts
Work with product management and other teams to understand the requirements and features, and to translate them into development tasks and quality assurance tests
Work independently, a self-starter who requires minimum supervision
Debug program/system failures, analyze dumps and identify the root cause of failures
Developing/maintaining execution plans and certain unit test specifications
Work with remote teams, communicate status, schedules effectively and clearly
Escalate issues in time and able to follow up for their status
Ability to think out of the box, be dynamic and add value to existing implementations
Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance.
NY generally ranges: $221,935-$332,903
CA generally ranges: $231,585-$347,377
All other locations fall under our General State range: $192,987-$289,481
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Cloud Software Group and the country where you work. U.S. based employees are typically offered access to healthcare, life insurance and disability benefits, 401(k) plan and company match, among others. This requisition has no specific deadline for completion.
About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
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