Principal Data Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Jan 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Principal Data Engineer.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead cross-functional efforts to re-architect or modernize core data systems
  • Create sustainable data contracts that address data governance requirements
  • Enable scalable, secure, and reliable data pipelines that support both cloud and on-prem environments
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of data engineering experience
  • Architecture expertise in creating scalable systems and designing efficient data storage and processing systems
  • Expertise in data modeling, including incremental models, dimensional models, and graph structures
  • Software development skills in Rust, Go, JVM-family, Python, and/or Node.js
  • Experience with message queues and stream processing on deployable infrastructure

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