Basic Information

Job Name

Principal Product Developer - USA

Country

United States

State

NA

Date Published

01-Sep-2026

Job ID

47470

Travel

You may occasionally be required to travel for business

Secondary locations

Canada

Additional Locations

Detroit - Michigan, Houston - Texas, San Francisco - California, New York - New York, Washington - DC

This role can be based remotely in United States

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Description and Requirements

CareerArc Code

CA-MH

LI-MH1

Hybrid: #LI-Hybrid

BMC empowers nearly 80% of the Forbes Global 100 to accelerate business value, faster than humanly possible. Our industry-leading portfolio unlocks human and machine potential to drive business growth, innovation, and sustainable success. BMC does this in a simple and optimized way by connecting people, systems, and data that power the world’s largest organizations so they can seize a competitive advantage.

We’re looking for a Principal Product Developer to join our Intelligent z Optimization & Transformation team (IZOT).

This role will be fully remote in the US / Canada. We’re unable to offer visa sponsorship at this stage.

In this role, you’ll work on a broad array of critical, unique issues and complex programs/solutions. You’ll architect and determine conversion paths (SAS/C conversion), build prototypes and use other appropriate techniques to achieve product definition and design goals.

As a Principal Developer, you’ll provide programming leadership for a product/solution according to design specifications. You’ll also promote opportunities for product and process innovation, while identifying and implementing best practices.

What You’ll Do:

• Successfully develop and deliver products, product lines, and solutions ensuring functional accuracy and quality standards.
• Design, code, and fix defects of increasingly complex, multi-tier software solutions.
• Produce a range of high-quality design options, reflecting a wide breadth of technical knowledge and insight.
• Work directly with global clients on complex product issues/escalations.
• Conduct code and design reviews.
• Make high-impact decisions; determine which development paths to pursue to deliver the greatest value.
• Evaluate new technologies/innovations and processes that could impact products/solutions, including 3rd party releases.
• Mentor/provide technical guidance to the development team.
• Leverage the skill sets of the entire team, take input and advice, combine pieces of information to produce a better answer.

Required Experience:

• 12+ years of experience with z/OS Processing Environment, including string knowledge of z/OS structure and logic, as well as z/OS system internals
• Extensive product development experience with both C/C++ and IBM Assembler, including system-side focus
• Architecture experience determining conversion paths between C compilers
• Knowledge of Db2
• Coding experience in a multitasking, reentrant and/or sysplex environment.
• Experienced creating functional designs/specifications from business requirements.
• Experience with IBM Mainframe environment (TSO/ISPF, JCL etc.).
• Experience in developing working code utilizing low-level operating system functions to accomplish a desired task.
• Self-starter able to work independently to provide quality solutions with little oversight.

What Will Make You Stand Out:

• Experience with Source code management tools
• Experience with build processes
• Experience with monitoring tools for systems and subsystems in z/OS environments.

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Our commitment to you!

BMC’s culture is built around its people. We have 6000+ brilliant minds working together across the globe. You won’t be known just by your employee number, but for your true authentic self. BMC lets you be YOU!

If after reading the above, You’re unsure if you meet the qualifications of this role but are deeply excited about BMC and this team, we still encourage you to apply! We want to attract talents from diverse backgrounds and experience to ensure we face the world together with the best ideas!

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