Data Platform Principal — Lead Data Systems (Remote)

Better Trucks; Indiana (PA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Hybrid schedule in Chicago area

Job summary

Better Trucks is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of our core data platform. You will partner with Analytics Engineering, BI, Finance, and Operations to transform multi-source data into trusted, standardized models powering pricing, reporting, and forecasting.

You will lead the design and implementation of production-grade data pipelines in BigQuery and Dataform, build robust ingestion, and define orchestration strategies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering experience, including staff/principal level responsibilities.
• Deep hands-on expertise in BigQuery or equivalent cloud data warehouse, and SQL-based transformation tooling such as Dataform or dbt.
• Strong Python skills for pipeline and tooling work, with production services experience (FastAPI/Flask).
• Experience designing standardized or normalized data models from heterogeneous, complex source systems.
• Practical experience with workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer) at production scale.
• Track record of making data trustworthy with testing, monitoring, and anomaly detection.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and execution of core data platform.
• Design and build standardized data models for pricing, finance, and ops.
• Own BigQuery/Dataform pipelines, including schema design and testing.
• Build ingestion into warehouse via Datastream, Cloud Functions, connectors.
• Set direction for orchestration (Airflow/Composer) and cost/performance tradeoffs.
• Drive data integrity with anomaly detection and monitoring.
• Build internal tools to automate workflows (Python, FastAPI/Flask).
• Apply AI/LLM tooling to automate repetitive tasks and accelerate work.
• Collaborate with Analytics Engineering and BI to serve reporting needs.

Skills

BigQuery

Python

SQL

Airflow

Data modeling

Data governance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Dataform

dbt

GCP

Looker

Datastream

Job description

Better Trucks is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to own the architecture and delivery of our core data platform. You will partner with Analytics Engineering, BI, Finance, and Operations to transform multi-source data into trusted, standardized models powering pricing, reporting, and forecasting.

You will lead the design and implementation of production-grade data pipelines in BigQuery and Dataform, build robust ingestion, and define orchestration strategies.