Principal Data Engineer - Real-Time Streaming & Observability

Pointclickcare; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement Plan Matching

Flexible Paid Time Off

Wellness Support Programs

Parental & Caregiver Leaves

Fertility & Adoption Support

Continuous Development Support

Employee Assistance Program

Employee Recognition

Job summary

Pointclickcare is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable streaming data solutions. The role involves optimizing real-time data pipelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in data engineering, including expertise in technologies like Apache Kafka and Flink, and a deep understanding of cloud platforms. Benefits include a retirement plan, flexible PTO, and wellness support programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software or data engineering, including 4 years focused on streaming and real-time data systems.
• Proven experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers.
• Deep expertise in streaming data technologies.
• Experience implementing resilient, low-latency data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead and implement scalable streaming data pipelines.
• Engineer and optimize real-time data solutions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally on data strategy.
• Ensure data governance and performance tuning.

Skills

Streaming and real-time data systems

Apache Kafka

Flink

Spark Streaming

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Data quality practices

CI/CD integration

Data governance

Distributed systems

Job description

Pointclickcare is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable streaming data solutions. The role involves optimizing real-time data pipelines and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in data engineering, including expertise in technologies like Apache Kafka and Flink, and a deep understanding of cloud platforms. Benefits include a retirement plan, flexible PTO, and wellness support programs.