Principal Software Engineer, Data Engineering

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      "text": "What You'll Do",
      "content": "<div>\n\n<li>\n<p><strong>Architect the data platform</strong> – drive the technical direction for a scalable, reliable data platform built on a medallion architecture that serves customer-facing analytics, reporting, and agentic AI from a unified foundation.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Build and optimize ingestion pipelines</strong> – design robust CDC, real-time streaming (Kafka, Flink), and batch processing pipelines that transform complex, nested document-oriented operational data into clean analytical models at enterprise scale.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Tame schema complexity</strong> – build resilient ingestion and transformation layers that gracefully handle deeply nested, continuously evolving document schemas — deciding where to absorb complexity (ingestion, transformation, or query time) and making those tradeoffs explicit and sustainable.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Serve AI and analytics consumption patterns</strong> – architect data products that support both traditional BI workloads (pre-aggregated dashboards, dimensional models for scorecards and reports) and emerging AI consumption patterns (low-latency retrieval, contextual assembly, freshness-sensitive agent queries).</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Own data quality, contracts, and observability</strong> – establish the data trust infrastructure that makes cross-team data consumption reliable: schema contracts with upstream producers, data quality monitoring, lineage tracking, freshness SLAs, and clear escalation paths when things break.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Drive cost-aware architecture</strong> – own Snowflake warehouse optimization, compute governance, and cost-efficient pipeline design. Build the practices and visibility so the team makes principled cost/performance tradeoffs rather than discovering them on the invoice.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Bridge producers and consumers</strong> – collaborate across organizational boundaries to align upstream software engineering teams and downstream analytics and AI teams around unified data strategies, shared contracts, and engineering standards.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lead and grow the team</strong> – technically lead and growth-coach a diverse crew of data engineers. Champion best practices across the full spectrum of data engineering disciplines, from low-level pipeline architecture to sophisticated data modeling and analytical query performance.</p>\n</li>\n\n</div>"
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      "text": "Your Background",
      "content": "<div style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #003b6b;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">What will set you apart:</span></span></strong></span></div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Demonstrated depth in building production data platforms that serve multiple consumption patterns – you've gone beyond traditional BI to support real-time product features, AI/ML workloads, or customer-facing analytics from the same data foundation.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Deep experience with the impedance mismatch between document-oriented operational stores and analytical systems – you've dealt with nested, schema-evolving source data (MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar) and have opinions on where flattening and transformation should live.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Hands-on experience with data quality and trust at scale – you've built or operated schema registries, data contracts, quality monitoring, or lineage systems in an environment where multiple teams depend on shared data products.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Track record of cost-conscious data architecture – you've optimized Snowflake (or comparable) warehouse spend, designed compute governance policies, or re-architected pipelines to materially reduce cost without sacrificing reliability.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Strong instinct for the bridge role: you're as comfortable pushing back on an upstream team's schema change as you are negotiating freshness SLAs with a downstream AI consumer.</span></p>\n</li>\n\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\">Foundations:</span></strong></span></p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent on distributed, data-intensive production systems –&nbsp; including substantial depth in data pipeline and platform architecture.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Deep hands-on expertise with modern data technologies: Snowflake, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and CDC tooling (Debezium or similar).</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Experience developing and operating cloud data infrastructure at enterprise scale (AWS preferred), including infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and CI/CD automation.</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; color: #000000;\">Strong programming skills in Python, Java, and SQL. 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