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Principal Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Data Engineer
Multitude Insights
• Design & Build: Architect and maintain the company’s core data infrastructure, including pipelines, warehousing, ingestion, transformation, and orchestration systems. • Own the Data Platform: Take end-to-end responsibility for the scalability, reliability, and security of the data platform ensuring high-quality data is accessible across the organization. • Set the Standard: Establish and own data engineering best practices, including data modeling, pipeline design, and observability patterns that the broader team can build on. • Champion Data Quality: Drive data quality and observability initiatives across the platform, ensuring stakeholders can trust the data they rely on. • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with engineering, product, and analytics teams to understand data needs and translate them into concrete technical solutions. • Lead & Mentor: Mentor engineers on data engineering principles and patterns, and contribute actively to hiring and team development.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of data engineering experience, including significant time in senior, staff, or principal-level roles.
- Deep expertise in data pipeline design and distributed data systems, with a track record of owning complex production data infrastructure.
- Proven experience with data modeling, ingestion, transformation, and orchestration at scale in a SaaS environment.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with modern data warehousing technologies.
- Experience establishing data quality and observability frameworks across an organization.
- Experience setting technical direction at an organizational level—not just within a single team.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to make complex data architecture decisions legible to non-technical stakeholders.
- Prior startup or mission-critical environment experience strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud data infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Databricks) at scale is a bonus.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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