Principal Data Engineer — AI-Driven Platform Leader

trueanomalyinc; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

PTO and holidays

401K

Parental Leave

Job summary

True Anomaly seeks a Principal Data Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, building and evolving scalable data platforms. This role will solve complex data engineering challenges, establish engineering standards, and guide the technical direction of True Anomaly's Enterprise Data Platform.

The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer with deep experience in Python, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or Redshift.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data engineering and software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Python and SQL experience.
• 3+ years with Snowflake, Databricks, or both.
• Understanding of data architecture, data modelling and ELT/ETL.
• Experience with Git, testing, CI/CD and code reviews.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor other engineers.
• Adopt AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products using Python, SQL and modern data engineering practices.
• Build and optimize ELT/ETL processes on cloud data platforms with focus on performance and cost efficiency.
• Establish data quality, testing, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, version control and production reliability.
• Own data engineering projects end-to-end—from design to deployment and support.
• Collaborate with engineering, AI/ML, analytics, product and business teams on reliable data solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools while contributing to engineering excellence and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor Junior and Senior Data Engineers and guide engineering teams.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Snowflake

Databricks

Data architecture

ELT/ETL

Git

CI/CD

AI tooling

AWS

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Kafka

Job description

True Anomaly seeks a Principal Data Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership in designing, building and evolving scalable data platforms. This role will solve complex data engineering challenges, establish engineering standards, and guide the technical direction of True Anomaly's Enterprise Data Platform.

The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on engineer with deep experience in Python, SQL, and modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or Redshift.