Our Culture and Impact
Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with more than 5,500+ employees and ~30,000 customers worldwide, including 60% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 1999, Cvent delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform for marketers and event professionals and offers software solutions to hotels, special event venues and destinations to help them grow their group/MICE and corporate travel business. Our technology brings millions of people together at events around the world. In short, we’re transforming the meetings and events industry through innovative technology that powers the human connection.
Cvent's strength lies in its people, fostering a culture where everyone is encouraged to think like entrepreneurs, taking risks and making decisions confidently. We value diverse perspectives and celebrate differences, working together with colleagues and clients to build strong connections.
AI at Cvent: Leading the Future
Are you ready to shape the future of work at the intersection of human expertise and AI innovation? At Cvent, we’re committed to continuous learning and adaptation—AI isn’t just a tool for us, it’s part of our DNA. We’re looking for candidates who are eager to evolve alongside technology. If you love to experiment boldly, share your discoveries, and help define best practices for AI-augmented work, you’ll thrive here. Our team values professionals who thoughtfully integrate AI into their daily work, delivering exceptional results while relying on the human judgment and creativity that drive real innovation.
Throughout our interview process, you’ll have the chance to demonstrate how you use AI to learn, iterate, and amplify your impact. If you’re excited to be part of a team that’s leading the way in AI-powered collaboration, we’d love to meet you.
Cvent is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Principal Engineer to help shape the platform behind our event and hospitality SaaS business. This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role for an engineer who thrives at: setting architectural direction, solving complex platform challenges, and creating leverage across teams through strong technical judgment, automation, and platform design.
In This Role, You Will::Lead the evolution of secure, scalable, and highly automated AWS infrastructure that supports both customer-facing applications and the internal platforms our engineering teams depend on to build and operate software at scale. You will influence the long-term direction of our cloud foundation, advance self-service infrastructure capabilities, and drive modern engineering practices across a global organization.
You will play a key role in expanding our AWS-based platform, including serverless workflows for account provisioning, IAM automation, and core database and storage services. You will also help identify practical opportunities to apply generative AI to improve developer productivity, internal tooling, and operational efficiency.
In addition, you will:
This role blends deep technical execution with strategic leadership. A typical allocation is:
Preferred Qualifications
On-Call and Work Model
Because Cloud Infrastructure supports a 24x7x365 environment, this role participates in an on-call rotation. Our global team structure is designed to make this sustainable: the rotation is typically one week approximately every six weeks, with daytime coverage shared across regions and handoff to our India team overnight.
This role follows our current hybrid schedule:
This is an opportunity to influence the cloud foundation of a large-scale SaaS platform at principal depth. You will help define how infrastructure is built, secured, automated, and consumed across the organization, while partnering with experienced engineers who care deeply about reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.
If you are motivated by platform strategy, large-scale cloud architecture, and building systems that enable other engineers to move faster, we would love to hear from you.
Hybrid: 2 days in office
We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position
LinkedIn Remote Type: #LI-Hybrid Indeed Remote Type: WFH Flexible
Cvent, Inc. (www.cvent.com) is the world’s leading provider of cloud-based software for meetings and event management. Lanyon has just recently merged with Cvent to become the market leader in our space. Cvent is an exciting, fast-growing tech company that provides industry-leading software to event professionals around the world. Our suite of services – online event registration, venue selection, mobile apps, email marketing, web surveys, and targeted hotel advertising opportunities – have positioned us a major player in the estimated $565 billion global meetings and events industry. Having over 2600 talented and dedicated employees, we are headquartered just outside of Washington, D.C., in McLean, Virginia, with additional U.S. offices in Portland, Austin, Dallas, Draper, Atlanta, and LA. Internationally we have offices in New Delhi, India, London, England, and Fredericton, CA. Cvent has received a number of awards and honors recognizing our strong company culture, innovative products, stellar customer service and support, visionary leadership and investment in our employees. We currently have job openings across all departments and locations and are looking to add valuable team members to further strengthen the company’s DNA.