Principal Data Engineer

JobCubby; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Wellness reimbursement

Mental health coaching

401(k) with company matching

Pension scheme

Stock options

Annual learning reimbursement

Job summary

HG Insights is seeking a senior data platform architect to own the end-to-end data stack, from raw ingestion to finished datasets delivered to clients. You will build quality controls, improve entity matching, and optimize costs across Spark, orchestration, and serving tiers, collaborating with engineers across Pune, the US, and Brazil.

The role requires 15+ years in production data engineering with at least 5 years in staff or principal capacity, deep Spark/Databricks expertise, and strong

Qualifications

• 15+ years building production-grade data systems.
• Proficiency with Spark and Databricks at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture of the data platform.
• Build quality controls and data freshness monitoring.
• Improve entity matching and attribution.
• Optimize compute costs across Spark, orchestration, and serving.
• Collaborate with global engineers in Pune, US and Brazil.

Skills

Spark & Databricks

SQL & Data Modeling

AWS ecosystem

Airflow

Python/Scala/Java

Data governance

Entity resolution

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

Job description

to apply - email only, no card. You can also save this posting or score it againstyour profile with AI.## About the roleYou will own the end-to-end architecture of the data platform, managing everything from raw data ingestion to the delivery of finished datasets. Additionally, you will build quality control layers, improve entity matching systems, and optimize compute costs across the infrastructure.## RequirementsThe role requires over 15 years of experience in building production-grade data engineering systems, with at least 5 years in a staff or principal capacity. Deep expertise in Spark, Databricks, SQL, and AWS ecosystems is essential, along with strong software engineering discipline.## BenefitsComprehensive healthcare coverageMonthly wellness reimbursementMental health coaching401(k) with company matchingPension schemeStock optionsAnnual learning reimbursement## Full descriptionAbout HG HG Insights is the pioneer of Revenue Growth Intelligence. For more than a decade, we have delivered comprehensive, AI- driven datasets on B2B buyers, technology adoption, IT spend, and buyer intent, sourced from billions of data points. Today, we are a trusted partner to Fortune 500 technology companies, hyperscalers, and innovative B2B vendors seeking precise go-to-market analytics and decision-making. Through an evolving suite of AI agents that incorporate first-party data and buyer signals, HG Insights enables AI-powered GTM automation across sales, marketing, RevOps, and data analytics teams, modernizing GTM execution from strategy through activation.About the Role This is a senior individual contributor role on the team that builds and runs HG's data platform: everything between a raw vendor file landing in our lake and a finished dataset arriving in a customer's hands. It includes the transformation stack that turns messy external signals into product-grade company attributes, the matching systems that decide which company a piece of evidence belongs to and the internal applications our analysts use to curate and correct the result.You will be based in Pune, working with engineers at our Pune, US & Brazil locations.What you'll do* Own the architecture of the data platform end to end, and make the calls on build vs. buy, batch vs. incremental, and where each workload belongs.* Build the quality layer that catches silent failure: contracts at every handoff, freshness and completeness monitoring, and pipelines that quarantine bad data rather than publish it.* Improve entity matching and attribution - and make match decisions explainable to the customers who depend on them.* Make our release cycle boring. Recurring deliveries should not depend on people watching them.* Treat compute cost as a first-class engineering metric across Spark, orchestration, and the serving tier.What we are looking for* 15+ years building production grade data engineering systems, with a minimum of 5 years in a staff or principal scope.* Deep Spark and Databricks expertise at multi-terabyte scale, including the operational side of lakehouse table formats - merges, compaction, small files, schema evolution.* Strong SQL and dimensional modelling, and the judgment to know when to break the rules.* Experience with performant and scalable OLTP setups (MySQL/Postgres).* Airflow orchestration (DAGs, operators, sensors) and integration with Spark/Databricks.* Proven experience in AWS ecosystems (EC2, S3, EMR).* Hands-on entity resolution, fuzzy matching, or record linkage at scale. This is central to what we do.* Python/Scala/Java, with real software discipline: testing, CI/CD, code review, infrastructure as code is a plus.* Experience in Docker - Kubernetes, Terraform is a plus.* Experience in integrating AI first implementations in traditional data engineering setups will greatly help in shaping our future designs.* Experience with machine learning pipelines (Spark MLlib, Databricks ML) for predictive analytics.* Knowledge of data governance frameworks and compliance standards (GDPR, CCPA).Preferred QualificationsB2B firmographic, technographic or intent data; streaming and CDC; warehouse-to-lakehouse migration experience.What we offer/Benefits We take care of our people fully and genuinely. Every HG Insights employee receives comprehensive healthcare coverage for themselves and their families, a monthly wellness reimbursement and access to Able To professional mental health coaching for stress, anxiety and depression support as per the regions. For your financial future, US employees benefit from a 401(k) with up to 5% company matching and all UK employees are enrolled in a pension scheme. Every employee also receives stock options because the people who build this company should share in its success. We invest in your growth through an annual learning reimbursement and a genuine commitment to developing your career at every stage. And through our Culture Club, you will always have a real voice in shaping the kind of workplace we build together.Equal Opportunity Employer HG Insights is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of HG Insights.