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Principal Engineer – Enterprise COBOL Application

Broadcom (CA Technologies)
Closed
Full-time
Durham, North Carolina
USD 129,400 - 207,000
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Posted September 18, 2026

Job Description

Mainframe systems are at the heart of the digital economy, with 80% of the world's structured corporate data residing or originating on mainframes, and 55% of all enterprise applications hitting the mainframe to complete transactions. Our industry-leading software solutions are critical to many Fortune 1000 companies.

We are seeking a hands-on, highly skilled principal engineer to own, maintain, and expand our enterprise COBOL application. Unlike traditional legacy production systems, this specific platform is a critical internal-only tool used to generate test data, simulate complex business scenarios, and support demo environments across Broadcom’s mainframe software division.

In this role, you will be the absolute authority on this system. You will act as a "player-coach"—getting your hands dirty in the mainframe codebase while simultaneously serving as the main subject matter expert (SME) to advise our division on COBOL integration, modernization, and testing strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Own the Roadmap: Define, prioritize, and manage the backlog for the COBOL application, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of our QA, automation, and demo teams.

Balance "Run" vs. "Build": Decide when to patch existing logic and when to engineer new, scalable capabilities to support modern testing frameworks.

Code & Implement: Write, test, and deploy COBOL code to add new features and enhance the application’s capabilities.

Use What We Build: Leverage products from the MSD DevOps solution to analyze, build, debug, manage, and validate the applications.

Environment Support:

Requirements & Skills

Mainframe systems are at the heart of the digital economy, with 80% of the world's structured corporate data residing or originating on mainframes, and 55% of all enterprise applications hitting the mainframe to complete transactions. Our industry-leading software solutions are critical to many Fortune 1000 companies.

We are seeking a hands-on, highly skilled principal engineer to own, maintain, and expand our enterprise COBOL application. Unlike traditional legacy production systems, this specific platform is a critical internal-only tool used to generate test data, simulate complex business scenarios, and support demo environments across Broadcom’s mainframe software division.

In this role, you will be the absolute authority on this system. You will act as a "player-coach"—getting your hands dirty in the mainframe codebase while simultaneously serving as the main subject matter expert (SME) to advise our division on COBOL integration, modernization, and testing strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Own the Roadmap: Define, prioritize, and manage the backlog for the COBOL application, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of our QA, automation, and demo teams.

Balance "Run" vs. "Build": Decide when to patch existing logic and when to engineer new, scalable capabilities to support modern testing frameworks.

Code & Implement: Write, test, and deploy COBOL code to add new features and enhance the application’s capabilities.

Use What We Build: Leverage products from the MSD DevOps solution to analyze, build, debug, manage, and validate the applications.

Environment Support:

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