Principal Data Engineer - AI-Driven Data Platform Architect

Lever, Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Daily Wire is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to architect and build the systems connecting our subscribers, content, advertising, and digital products. This hands-on role will work across backend services, event-driven pipelines, cloud infrastructure, analytical models, and personalization systems to strengthen our data foundations and support AI-driven content discovery.

The ideal candidate brings a strong software engineering background, deep expertise in data-intensive systems, and the

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software or data engineering roles.
• Advanced Snowflake and dbt expertise with data warehouse design.
• Experience deploying on AWS including SageMaker and Personalize.
• Hands-on IaC, CI/CD, observability, and production ops.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive the long-term data ecosystem vision.
• Design distributed systems, real-time data pipelines, and APIs.
• Lead production ML infra and low-latency inference.
• Mentor teams and enforce testing, security, and cost controls.
• Collaborate with product and analytics to define schemas and analytics.

Skills

Data engineering

Python/Go

SQL

Cloud architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

AWS

SageMaker

Kinesis/Kafka

Job description

Daily Wire is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to architect and build the systems connecting our subscribers, content, advertising, and digital products. This hands-on role will work across backend services, event-driven pipelines, cloud infrastructure, analytical models, and personalization systems to strengthen our data foundations and support AI-driven content discovery.

The ideal candidate brings a strong software engineering background, deep expertise in data-intensive systems, and the