Staff & Principal Data Engineers

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Remote / $200000 - $240000 annum

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Salary

SALARY:

$200000 - $240000

Location

LOCATION

Remote

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Principal & Staff Data Engineer's (L4 & L5)

Location: Remote (USA)
Compensation: $220,000 - $240,000 Base Salary

About the Role

We're hiring both Principal Data Engineer's and Staff Data Engineers to join a growing engineering organization focused on building scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms that power analytics, machine learning, and operational decision-making across the business.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can own platform architecture end-to-end, define data strategy, and drive modernization across complex data ecosystems. You'll play a critical role in shaping the data foundation that supports product innovation, AI initiatives, and enterprise-scale analytics.

This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving large-scale infrastructure challenges, building reliable systems, and influencing technical direction across teams.

What You'll Do

Data Platform Architecture

  • Define and lead data architecture strategy across pipelines, warehouses, and data lake environments
  • Design and build scalable batch and real-time data pipelines for enterprise analytics and machine learning use cases
  • Drive modernization of data platforms with a focus on scalability, reliability, performance, and cost optimization
  • Develop data models and storage strategies to support high-volume, high-availability systems
  • Implement data contracts and event-driven architectures across distributed systems

Data Reliability & Governance

  • Establish and enforce data quality, governance, and compliance standards across the platform
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks for data services and pipelines
  • Improve reliability and operational resilience across data workflows and infrastructure
  • Partner with teams to improve data accessibility, lineage, and trust across the organization

AI & Machine Learning Infrastructure

  • Design data pipelines that support production AI/ML systems, including feature engineering, training datasets, inference pipelines, and model-serving workflows
  • Support vectorized data architectures, semantic retrieval systems, and large-scale model input pipelines
  • Build scalable systems to support modern machine learning applications and analytics workloads

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Partner with Engineering, Product, Analytics, and Leadership teams to align data platform strategy with business goals
  • Help define technical standards and best practices across data engineering workflows
  • Mentor and support other engineers across architecture, delivery, and technical growth
  • Influence long-term platform strategy through architectural decisions and technical leadership

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform Architecture
  • Strong expertise in Python, Scala, and SQL
  • Deep experience with distributed data systems and cloud-native data platforms
  • Expertise building large-scale batch and streaming pipelines
  • Strong experience with real-time data systems such as Kafka, Kinesis, or Pub/Sub
  • Strong data modeling experience across analytical and operational systems
  • Experience with orchestration frameworks and CI/CD pipelines for data workflows
  • Strong understanding of data governance, quality frameworks, and compliance standards
  • Experience building infrastructure for production machine learning systems
  • Strong stakeholder communication skills and the ability to influence across technical and business teams
  • Proven experience making architectural decisions in complex environments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with lakehouse architectures, data mesh, or data fabric concepts
  • Experience with feature stores, vector databases, or retrieval systems
  • Exposure to AWS and cloud-native analytics ecosystems
  • Experience in highly regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or enterprise software
  • AWS certifications (or equivalent cloud certifications) are a plus

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to shape the core data infrastructure of a growing organization where data is central to product development, machine learning, and strategic decision-making. You'll work on complex technical challenges, influence long-term platform architecture, and build systems that directly impact the future of the business.

CONTACT

Mark Turp

Principal Recruitment Consultant

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