Joblaze summary

The Principal Engineer for Cloud Software at LI-COR Biosciences is responsible for providing technical direction and hands-on engineering for connected products and cloud platforms, ensuring systems are reliable and scalable. This role requires extensive experience in software and cloud engineering, particularly with AWS, backend development, and data management. It is suited for a senior professional with a strong background in architecture for high-volume data platforms and a collaborative mindset to work across various teams. The position emphasizes technical leadership and mentorship, contributing to the modernization of the platform.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze November 12, 2026. Last confirmed on LI-COR Biosciences's careers page November 12, 2026.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$128,000).
Starts above 5% of 97 comparable principal other roles in United States we track (median $181,913 across 29 companies).
CI/CD appears in 2.1% of 235 comparable principal other roles in United States; IoT appears in 0.4% of 235 comparable principal other roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Principal Engineer, Cloud Software role remote?: It's hybrid — LI-COR Biosciences expects some on-site time in Lincoln, NE, United States.
What's the salary for this Principal Engineer, Cloud Software role?: LI-COR Biosciences lists a starting salary of $120,000.
How much experience is required?: At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Principal Engineer, Cloud Software role.
Where is the role based?: LI-COR Biosciences is hiring for this position in Lincoln, NE, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: API, AWS, Backend, CI/CD, Cloud Services, IoT.
What seniority level is this role?: LI-COR Biosciences targets principal-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Principal Engineer, Cloud Software role at LI-COR Biosciences.

From the original posting

Primary Work Location

Lincoln, NE or Remote in the U.S. | Full-Time

Starting Salary: $120,000+ annually (actual compensation will be determined based on the candidate's experience, qualifications, and geographic location.)

Overview

The Principal Engineer, Cloud Software provides technical direction and hands-on engineering for LI-COR Environmental's connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor works across instruments, firmware, connectivity, cloud services, data, and applications to build systems that are reliable, secure, scalable, supportable, and economically sustainable. Partners with engineering, product, science, quality, IT and DevOps, and external technology partners to turn complex needs into practical technical direction.

Professional Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Qualifications

Typically 10 or more years of software and cloud engineering experience, including significant experience as a system, solution, platform, or principal architect for production systems.
Demonstrated architecture ownership for a commercial IoT, connected device, industrial, scientific, telemetry, or other high volume data platform.
Deep experience with AWS or a comparable public cloud, including compute, containers, networking, databases, storage, identity and access, observability, security, resiliency, and infrastructure as code.
Strong backend engineering and API design skills, with hands-on proficiency in at least one modern backend language.
Experience with event driven and distributed systems, device ingestion, message delivery, high volume time series data, data modeling, and data lifecycle management.
Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and secure software delivery at production scale.
Ability to connect architecture decisions to delivery effort, operational cost, product economics, and customer impact.
Strong communication, technical judgment, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through influence across teams and external partners.

Preferred Experience

Architecture spanning embedded devices or firmware, cellular or gateway connectivity, cloud ingestion, web or mobile applications, and analytics.
Regulated, validated, or quality controlled systems with requirements for data access, retention, privacy, auditability, and change control.
Platform modernization, microservice simplification, globally distributed teams, or blended employee and contractor delivery models.
Professional level cloud certification or equivalent practical expertise.

General

Self starter and motivated. Enjoy challenges. Proven drive to achieve goals.
Creative. High insight, curiosity and problem solving ability. High attention to detail.
Good interpersonal and networking skills.
Team player. Enjoys and works well with other people in a team environment.
Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
Dependable, positive attitude and good attendance.
High ethics, integrity, honesty, patience.

Position Responsibilities

Architecture and Platform Direction:

Define and maintain the target architecture, system boundaries, data models, integration patterns, and technical roadmap for connected products and cloud platforms.
Lead architecture reviews for services, APIs, data pipelines, databases, identity, applications, deployment patterns, and device-to-cloud communication.
Simplify the platform by identifying unnecessary coupling, duplicate processing, fragile patterns, and services that should be consolidated, redesigned, or retired.
Guide platform modernization and the use of managed cloud services based on product needs, customer continuity, cost, portability, security, reliability, and operational burden.
Maintain architecture decisions and documentation so LI-COR retains the knowledge, access, data portability, and technical control needed to make sound future decisions.

Device to Cloud Architecture:

Guide how devices produce data and how cloud services receive, process, store, and present it, including schemas, batching, retries, deduplication, derived data, and retention.
Partner with Firmware and Hardware Engineering to identify connectivity, scalability, reliability, support, and cost implications early in product development.
Review new products and sensor integrations for downstream effects on cloud services, storage, analytics, applications, and cost-to-serve.

Reliability Security and Operations:

Define end-to-end observability and nonfunctional requirements for availability, performance, security, privacy, scalability, recovery, and supportability.
Partner with Engineering and IT and DevOps on CI/CD, infrastructure as code, release architecture, incident response, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness.
Provide technical leadership during significant incidents and recurring performance or connectivity issues, driving root cause correction and durable improvement.
Ensure platform designs support applicable validation, data separation, retention, privacy, auditability, and customer contractual requirements.

Technical Leadership:

Serve as a technical partner to the Software and Cloud leader and as an architecture authority across engineering, product, science, quality, and operations.
Remain hands-on through backend design and implementation, prototypes, technical investigations, code reviews, and resolution of high risk production issues.
Translate product intent into technically complete approaches and communicate tradeoffs, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical teams and business leaders.
Mentor engineers and strengthen architecture capability across employees and partners so knowledge and decision quality do not depend on one person.
Act as LI-COR's technical counterpart with cloud, data, connectivity, and engineering partners while business leaders retain commercial and contract authority.