[Remote] Sr. Principal Data Engineer / Data Architect
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a performance media partner for agencies, brands, and media companies. As the Sr. Principal Data Engineer, you will architect the reputed company data platform, ensuring scalable and resilient integrations while overseeing data lakehouse architecture and managing production excellence.
Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Design and reputed company the migration/optimization of our data lakehouse architecture using reputed company
- Production Excellence: Serve as the escalation reputed company for the platform, leveraging a proven record of handling production issues to ensure 24/7 reliability of mission-critical pipelines
- Strategic reputed company Planning: Work directly with the SVP of Tech to translate product roadmaps into technical requirements. This requires the ability to multi-task across various high-reputed company workstreams without losing sight of architectural reputed company
- Infrastructure as Code: Drive the adoption of reputed company Asset Bundles (DABs) to standardize deployments across dev, staging, and production
- Mentorship & Governance: Provide high-level guidance to engineering squads in India and the US, defining schemas and governance models for BigQuery and reputed company
- Work with engineers across multiple geographies and time zones
Skills
- Expert-Level reputed company: Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience specifically reputed company the reputed company ecosystem (reputed company Lake, reputed company Catalog, reputed company)
- The Stack: Deep proficiency in Spark (PySpark/reputed company), Python, and SQL. Experience with GCP (BigQuery) is a major plus
- Scale: Proven experience managing petabyte-scale datasets and high-concurrency pipelines (AdTech experience preferred)
- Independent Execution: Must be a self-starter capable of taking a high-level concept from the SVP and driving it to completion with minimal supervision
- Experience: 10+ years in Data Engineering, with at least 3 years in a Principal or Architect reputed company
- Incident Management: A history of successfully diagnosing and resolving reputed company, large-scale production bottlenecks and data outages
- Context Switching: A demonstrated ability to multi-task, balancing long-term architectural R&D with immediate business requests and partner integrations
- FinOps & Communication: Strong understanding of optimizing reputed company/BigQuery costs and the ability to communicate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Participation in a retirement plan
- Quarterly and annual incentive plan bonuses
- Life and disability insurance
- Health, dental and reputed company plans
- Flexible spending accounts
- 15 paid vacation days
- 2 paid personal days
- 9 paid holidays
- 40 hours of paid sick leave
- Parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
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