● Engineering / Data Platforms
Principal Data Engineer
Set the technical direction for trustworthy data platforms that power products, decisions, and applied AI.
About the role
You will lead architecture and hands-on delivery for modern data platforms serving operational, analytical, and AI workloads.
This role connects long-term technical direction with pragmatic increments that product teams can use now.
What you'll do
- Define evolvable data architecture, contracts, and governance
- Lead critical implementation across ingestion, transformation, quality, and serving
- Make security, reliability, lineage, and cost visible
- Develop senior engineers through design partnership and review
What we're looking for
- 10+ years in data or software engineering
- Deep experience with cloud data systems, SQL, Python, and distributed processing
- Evidence of setting direction across complex organizations
- Strong English communication with technical and business leaders
Nice to have
- Streaming and real-time architecture experience
- Experience building data foundations for AI products
What we offer
- Remote-first collaboration with meaningful timezone overlap
- Direct access to senior peers and client decision-makers
- Learning through end-to-end product ownership
- Equipment and working agreements defined before your start date
Skills
- Data Architecture
- Python
- SQL
- Streaming
- Cloud