Sr Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer - San Jose, United States
$161,000 - $299,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 11 September 2026 by the employer.
Work on the Tensilica Products Group processor generator, processing systems, and supporting infrastructure.
About the role
This role involves software and systems engineering to design, build, and improve Cadence's processor generator, processing systems, and supporting infrastructure, working across the full product life cycle.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, and maintain control systems for driving build systems and supporting infrastructure.
- Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure components for interacting with other databases, systems, and APIs.
- Design, develop, and maintain web REST API servlets that support remote product functionality.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated systems for importing order information into live build and delivery systems.
- Manage product release branches in source control systems like Perforce and Git.
- Design and evolve SQL and other databases to support product functionality and internal management systems.
What you'll need
- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field + 7 years of related experience, or Bachelor’s degree + 10 years of related experience.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Perl, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and shells.
- Strong experience building database-driven production systems in Java, Perl, Python.
- Experience building Java and React web applications that interact with SQL databases based on REST services.
- Experience architecting and configuring web and application servers (particularly Tomcat).
- Experience designing and developing SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience designing/building test systems for web and infrastructure systems.
- Experience with Jenkins or equivalent and dashboarding systems like Grafana.
- Fluency working with and scripting tasks on Windows and Linux systems.
- Strong understanding of operating systems and computer architecture.
Skills: backend systems, database interfaces, web applications, control systems, REST API, build systems
This role has been open 33 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Cadence Design Systems | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 15 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 134 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 34 d | 50 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: backend systems, database interfaces, web applications, control systems, REST API, build systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.