• Develop, scale, and optimize the GraphQL APIs, gRPC endpoints, and SQL queries that power the marketplace • Own technical problems of the highest scope and complexity, drafting proposals and presenting them to leadership and partner teams for feedback • Design, architect, and deliver new features end-to-end in a collaborative agile/scrum environment • Identify bottlenecks and areas of risk in production, and drive the changes that make the platform more scalable • Take on the Sportsbook Platform Support rotation, which owns release management and deployment management during its window • Set up and refine monitoring and alerting in DataDog for the systems you own • Mentor engineers on the team and across teams that ship into our codebase, through specs, pairing, and code review • Other duties as required.

• You'll keep Element451's platform reliable, secure, and operable - and build the delivery systems that let it scale without scaling the firefighting. This is a hands-on senior IC role, and a deliberately broad one: reliability and operations are the core, with CI/CD and delivery, security, infrastructure, and data reliability all real, recurring parts of the work. • You own the operational health of the platform - that it's available, fast, observable, and safe in production - and you build the automation that makes those properties durable rather than heroic. • Participate in on-call, lead incident response, run blameless post-incident reviews, and drive issues to root cause rather than patching symptoms. • Treat operational toil as engineering work to eliminate - relentlessly automate remediation, sharpen alert quality, and drive down MTTD and MTTR rather than absorbing manual load. • Own and evolve the CI/CD and delivery platform alongside the Director of Platform Engineering - build pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, and release tooling - so shipping is routine, safe, and low-drama, with progressive delivery, automated rollback, and production validation gates as standard. • Be the platform's hands-on security operator - IAM and least-privilege hygiene, secrets management, threat detection and response (WAF, GuardDuty), and vulnerability triage and remediation against SLA.

• Partner with engineering leadership to evolve and standardize the foundational architecture for a cloud-native, event-driven telecom platform — identifying areas for improvement and driving safe, incremental modernization alongside active development • Own developer experience: build tooling, CI pipeline performance, dependency management, and inner-source contribution models across a shared monorepo • Govern shared UI component standards and design system practices used across teams • Establish and maintain engineering standards: RFCs, ADRs, architecture reviews • Partner closely with Operations and SRE to define observability standards (tracing, logging, metrics), SLO/SLI frameworks, and reliability practices • Champion AI-first development practices across tooling, workflows, and culture • Manage and develop a small, established team of senior engineers

Job Description: The Principal Engineer, Platform Analytics is the senior technical owner of Platform Analytics — the customer-facing analytics experience to deliver a single, trustworthy source of truth for the metrics customers use to measure the learning progress. As a senior individual contributor on the team, they own the architecture and the critical technical decisions. This is a deeply hands-on role — they design, build, and operate the pipelines and serving layers themselves — spanning both the target-state platform-analytics architecture and the traditional data-engineering ELT that feeds it. They set the technical bar for the team, mentor junior engineers, and use AI coding tools fluently to build faster and better. Who you’re committed to being: - You lead by building, not managing. - You own outcomes, not just output. - You mentor without authority. - You treat AI tools as a craft, not a shortcut. - You hold a high bar for simplicity and rigor. What you’ll do: - Own the architecture of Platform Analytics and the key technical decisions while preserving the consistency guarantee and meeting its latency and freshness targets. - Design, build, and operate the data pipelines and serving layers hands-on: event ingestion and entity/reference ingestion into Snowflake, dbt-governed metric definitions, and a high-performance OLAP serving layer behind a single Analytics API. - Own production performance, reliability, and cost — performance tuning, monitoring and alerting, and resource management — for a customer-facing system. - Curate and model source-system data into trusted, conformed datasets, applying dimensional modeling and engineering best practices. - Build and operate the traditional data-engineering ELT the product depends on to the same standard as the platform-analytics path. - Set the technical bar for the team — code quality, design standards, and ways of working — and mentor senior and mid-level engineers, raising the team's ability to make and hold sound technical decisions. - Partner with the Product Manager and stakeholders to sequence the architecture work ahead of the dependent product roadmap, and communicate technical direction and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Use AI coding tools productively in daily engineering work — accelerating development, testing, and debugging — and help establish effective patterns for their use across the team. Experience you’ll bring: - Experience building customer-facing analytics products where metric consistency across UI and API is a hard requirement. - Experience taking a system from a launch/MVP design through to a scaled production architecture. - Familiarity with low-latency lookup stores (e.g., Redis) for instant-response use cases. Requirements: - Requires a minimum of 12 years of related or equivalent experience; or 8+ years and an advanced degree. - Deep, current, hands-on expertise designing and delivering data warehouses and analytical data platforms — including data curation, integration, metadata management, and data-quality processes — with the ability to do this work personally, not only direct it. - Expert SQL development and performance tuning on analytical databases (e.g., Snowflake), with the judgment to hold low-latency, high-concurrency query performance at scale. - Experience with streaming and real-time data processing (e.g., Kafka) and with change-data-capture (CDC) ingestion for entity/reference data. - Experience designing and operating a high-performance OLAP serving layer for customer- or product-facing analytics (e.g., ClickHouse), or strong transferable equivalent. - Experience with dimensional data modeling and with source control, testing, and deployment workflows for ELT (e.g., dbt, git-based CI/CD). - Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow) for scheduling, dependency management, and monitoring of production data pipelines. - Demonstrated ability to own architecture and make and hold the key technical decisions on a complex, business-critical system — exercising independent judgment on performance, reliability, scalability, and consistency. - Productive, fluent use of AI coding tools in day-to-day engineering work. - Excellent communication skills — able to align engineers, partner with product and non-technical stakeholders, and mentor more junior engineers. - This is a remote role; however, applicants located within 45 miles of our Westlake/Dallas, TX office should expect to work on-site Tuesday through Thursday, with remote flexibility on Mondays and Fridays. This approach enables more effective collaboration, quicker decision-making, and a stronger culture, while still providing flexibility. Why you’ll love working here: - We work in a blended environment that supports collaboration, flexibility, and connection across teams. - We are mission-driven, shaping the future of tech upskillling and delivering impact that matters. - We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can contribute and thrive. - We are always learning, creating an environment where you can take on new challenges, expand your skills, and grow with purpose. - Benefits include competitive compensation, bonus eligibility, comprehensive medical coverage, unlimited PTO, wellness reimbursement, professional development funds, and more. About us: Pluralsight provides the only learning platform dedicated to accelerating the technology skills and capabilities of today’s tech workforce. Thousands of companies, government organizations and individuals around the world rely on Pluralsight to support critical technology skill development in areas that are crucial to innovation including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, and machine learning. We offer highly curated content developed by vetted technology experts, industry leading skill assessments, and hands on, immersive learning experiences designed to help individuals skill-up faster. Physical Requirements: This role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work. EEOC & Accommodations Statement: Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. 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