Principal Data Engineer

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United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 220,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Technical leadership","Mentoring","Incident response","Architectural decision-making"]

Define and align the architectural vision for an org-wide data platform as the most senior individual contributor on the Data Platform Engineering team. Own long-term architecture across ingestion, orchestration, event streaming (Kafka → Flink → BigQuery), lower environments, standards, production readiness, data quality/observability, governance of tooling, cost control, and incident response—while mentoring senior engineers and partnering across engineering, data science, legal/compliance, and DevOps.

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Principal Data Engineer

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Job Summary

Define and align the architectural vision for an org-wide data platform as the most senior individual contributor on the Data Platform Engineering team. Own long-term architecture across ingestion, orchestration, event streaming (Kafka → Flink → BigQuery), lower environments, standards, production readiness, data quality/observability, governance of tooling, cost control, and incident response—while mentoring senior engineers and partnering across engineering, data science, legal/compliance, and DevOps.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own long-term data platform architecture across ingestion, orchestration, event streaming, and platform infrastructure, including CDC-based streaming (Kafka → Flink → BigQuery) and lower environment strategy.
  • •Chair Architecture Review Committee decisions and serve as primary technical DRI for cross-team, multi-system, and cost-impacting changes.
  • •Establish and enforce engineering standards and production readiness criteria (testing, CI/CD patterns, observability-as-code, logging standards, data contracts, Schema Registry governance).
  • •Own data quality and observability architecture (dbt anomaly detection, schema validation, data drift alerting) and define self-service analytics strategy and guardrails.
  • •Lead incident response for platform-level P1/P2 incidents and mentor/elevate Staff and Senior Data Engineers through design/code reviews and hands-on pairing.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 220,000 - 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveParental Leave401kEquityEspp

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years designing, building, and owning data platform architecture at company scale.
  • •Define and align an architectural vision with business goals across an engineering organization.
  • •Deep expertise in cloud-native data platforms with GCP primary (BigQuery, GCS, Dataflow) and AWS operational familiarity (EKS-based Airflow).
  • •Hands-on modern data stack governance at scale including dbt, Airflow/Astronomer, Kafka/Confluent, Databricks/Spark, Fivetran, and data sharing/activation (Hightouch or equivalent).
  • •Infrastructure-as-code fluency (Terraform or equivalent) and strong Python and SQL skills for production-grade pipeline code.
Experience:15+ yearsHealthcareTelehealth
Skills:Written communicationTechnical leadershipMentoringIncident responseArchitectural decision-making
Tech Stack:GCPBigQueryGCSDataflowAirflowAstronomerEKSDbtConfluent KafkaDatabricksDelta LakeSparkPySparkFivetranKafkaFlinkTerraformOpenTofuSchema RegistryCI/CD

Company Brief

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A telehealth and consumer wellness platform offering personalized care and products across sexual health, hair, mental health, dermatology, weight loss and primary care via digital consultations, prescriptions, and fulfillment.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2017
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