Principal Data Platform Engineer — Remote, Equity

Harnham; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Pension plan

Job summary

A high-growth tech company based in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to lead the development of a modern, scalable data platform. In this role, you will tackle large data challenges and enable AI/ML capabilities, working with cutting-edge technologies like Kafka and Snowflake. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of data engineering experience and a history of leading platform architecture initiatives. Competitive salary and remote options are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or platform architecture.
• 5+ years at the Principal Engineer level or equivalent.
• Deep expertise with Kafka (and its ecosystem), streaming data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a next-gen data platform to power product and internal use cases.
• Architect for batch + streaming, scalability, fault tolerance, and low latency.
• Lead data modeling, warehousing, governance, and ingestion best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

Platform architecture

Kafka expertise

Cloud-native architecture

Collaboration skills

Leadership

Tools

Kafka

ClickHouse

Iceberg

Snowflake

Job description

A high-growth tech company based in San Francisco is seeking a Principal Data Platform Engineer to lead the development of a modern, scalable data platform. In this role, you will tackle large data challenges and enable AI/ML capabilities, working with cutting-edge technologies like Kafka and Snowflake. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of data engineering experience and a history of leading platform architecture initiatives. Competitive salary and remote options are offered.