Principal Data Engineer: HR Data & Scale Architect

Okta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Job summary

Okta’s Data Engineering team seeks a Principal Data Engineer to architect and scale data platforms serving HR, recruiting, and employee analytics. You will lead cross‑functional initiatives with product, analytics, and data science teams to ensure high‑quality data availability and governance.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive data contracts and schema evolution, and push for modern lakehouse architectures, security, and impactful data solutions across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a data engineering role with lead or senior responsibilities.
• Experience designing HR data models, candidate lifecycle, and workforce analytics.
• Familiarity with federal government compliance and security is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver scalable data platforms used across the organization.
• Lead data quality, governance, lineage, and data contracts across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and drive cross‑functional data initiatives.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Business, and Product teams to maximize impact.
• Champion modern lakehouse/warehouse architectures (Databricks, Snowflake).
• Ensure reliable data availability and integrity for HR and employee data.

Skills

Data engineering

Mentoring

Cross‑functional work

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Snowflake

Redshift

Spark

Kafka

Databricks

Iceberg

Delta

S3

Lambda

EMR

EKS

Job description

Okta’s Data Engineering team seeks a Principal Data Engineer to architect and scale data platforms serving HR, recruiting, and employee analytics. You will lead cross‑functional initiatives with product, analytics, and data science teams to ensure high‑quality data availability and governance.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive data contracts and schema evolution, and push for modern lakehouse architectures, security, and impactful data solutions across the enterprise.